Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field

**Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Ambulatory** Emerging Practices in Telehealth: Best Practices in a Rapidly Changing Field is an introduction to telehealth basics, best practices and implementation methods. The book guides the reader from start to finish through the workflow implementation of telehealth technology, including EMRs, clinical workflows, RPM, billing systems, and patient experience. It also explores how telehealth can increase healthcare access and decrease disparities across the globe. Practicing clinicians, medical fellows, allied healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and hospital IT professionals will all benefit from this practical guidebook.

Table of Contents:
1. Telehealth basics - what’s known, how it works 2. Technology and workflow implementation for telehealth 3. Integration into EMRs and clinical workflows 4. Billing basics / Fundamentals 5. Optimizing the patient experience 6. Using RPM with Telehealth 7. Creating the perfect telehealth product 8. Increasing access and decreasing disparity with telehealth 9. International telehealth implementation - The Russian experience 10. International telehealth implementation – The Gujarat experience 11. Global telehealth and digital health – how to support programs and infrastructure 12. The rise of artificial intelligence in telehealth

About the Author :
Andrew M. Freeman is an associate professor of medicine and director of clinical cardiology and cardiovascular prevention and wellness at the National Jewish Health in Denver, Colorado. He has published numerous scholarly manuscripts on plant-based nutrition, and holds key leadership positions in the American College of Cardiology as well as the national level, including co-chair of the Lifestyle and Nutrition Workgroup and steering committee for the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention council. Dr. Freeman teaches medical, physician assistant, and pharmacy students, and has hosted many community lectures and CME programs. Ami Bhatt is the director of telecardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Bhatt serves as a medical advisor for digital and telehealth companies from inception, clinical trials, and FDA applications to sequential funding rounds. Her research centers on identifying and implementing solutions to barriers to access to cardiovascular and telemedicine care. Dr. Bhatt also leads national telemedicine education via the American College of Cardiology and serves on the Boston Board of the American Heart Association to address the significant global burden of South Asian Heart Disease. Internationally, she assists countries affected by COVID with an abrupt need to deliver remote care.

Review :
*4 stars* "…a step-by-step guide to help users implement telehealth into their practices [which] is a relevant topic made even more so due to the COVID-19 pandemic which brought telehealth to the forefront of medicine…. It would be particularly useful in the management and monitoring of chronic disease which can be found in many specialties (including but not limited to primary care, cardiology, nephrology, and endocrinology since HTN, diabetes, hyperlipidemia are three common chronic disease that can be managed partially with telehealth…. [U]seful for practitioners who are working to set up a telehealth platform within their practice for the first time. It would also benefit practitioners who want to better utilize telehealth visits in their practices and help them flow smoother, get reimbursed appropriately, and give patients better access to care." — ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Allison Holley, MD (Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine)