Home Telehealth in the 21st Century : A Resource Book about Improved Care Services That Work

Home Telehealth in the 21st Century: A Resource Book About Improved Care Services That Work profiles telecommunications-ready tools and services that can be used effectively with This Generation of home care patient. Telehealth's enabling of self management routines in daily living is given particular focus. Patients living with chronic diseases, such those with congestive heart failure (CHF), diabetic teens, and pediatric asthmatics, all of whom need the most health care services and could benefit most from the correct choices of telecommunications-ready tools are given special attention in this report. With the "right" tools, the ambitious goal of self management by chronic disease and other needy patients can eventually be reached. In addition, cost effective care can be provided, particularly needed now under new, capitated insurance programs, such as Medicare's. Prospective Payment System (PPS) for Home Care (effective October 2000) which reduces conventionally provided visits and payments. A full-text chapter (available at: www.InformationForTomorrow.com/bookstore/index.html ) identifies needed telehealthcare tools and discusses potential adaptations of older tools already in the home (like the television and the telephone), and so make telehealth services increasingly within reach. A Special Appendix: "Legal Issues and Home Telemedicine" is provided by Barry B. Cepelewicz, MD, JD. A Contents page is available at: http://www.informationfortomorrow.com/publications/resource.html.Kinsella, Audrey is the author of 'Home Telehealth in the 21st Century : A Resource Book about Improved Care Services That Work', published 2000 under ISBN 9780965767422 and ISBN 0965767426.