This course explores how to adopt and integrate telehealth or telemedicine technologies including Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and an Isolation Communication Management System (iSOCOMS) to manage emerging pathogens. Telemedicine, when used to care for patients hospitalized with a highly infectious pathogen, represents an important new use of technology.
Course Highlights:
- Emerging infectious disease represents an ongoing threat to the health and livelihood of people everywhere.
- With the spread of emerging pathogens, telehealth or telemedicine technologies are being implemented to:
- Reduce the risk of exposure
- Ensure universal protection, proper use of personal protective equipment, proper disposal, and proper handwashing
- Improve access and efficiencies
- Support both patients and healthcare providers in isolation
- Improve educational opportunities
- Enable surveillance
- Enhance safety and quality control
- Promote conservation of personal protective equipment
This course is licensed from TelehealthVillage @ the University of Virginia.
Language Availability: English
Suggested Audiences: Allied Healthcare Professionals, Healthcare Administrators, Licensed Independent Providers, Nurses, Patients and Families, Physicians, Policymakers, Researchers, Students, Technologists, Volunteers
Organizational Subscription Price: Included as part of an annual subscription to the UVA: Telehealth for Healthcare Settings series, which is available as part of an organizational subscription package or for $675 per year/per site as a subscription add-on for government and non-profit organizations; $750 per year/per site as a subscription add-on for for-profit organizations
Independent Learner Price: $49.17
