The Foundations of Telehealth is an overview course designed to provide clinicians, healthcare teams, technologists, administrators and public policy experts with a broad-based summary of telehealth, and the technical, professional, regulatory and financial considerations affecting the delivery of services.

This course is designed to provide information on how to adopt and integrate telehealth or telemedicine technologies including Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and 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.

This course is designed to prepare you for interpretation of continuous glucose monitoring data. The program is divided into four modules: the basics of AGP, AGP reports, interpretation of AGP, and case studies. All AGP-related materials were based on data collected using currently available continuous glucose monitoring systems.

Module 1: Foundations

This course is designed to provide information on why diabetic retinopathy screening (DRS) at the primary care level, accompanied by telehealth technology and a follow up dilated eye exam, is essential to the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of diabetic retinopathy.

This course is designed to provide information on how to adopt and integrate telehealth technologies into the delivery of the National Diabetes Prevention Program to improve patient outcomes and enhance provider knowledge and support.

This course is designed to provide information on how to adopt and integrate telehealth technologies into accredited and recognized Diabetes Self-Management Education & Support (DSMES) programs to increase patient participation and engagement in diabetes education and improve outcomes.

Interprofessional Collaboration Interprofessional teamwork is essential to success in healthcare, much like teamwork in sports is essential to winning. Interprofessional collaboration across the healthcare team is critical not only for reaching positive patient outcomes but also for achieving professional satisfaction and productivity.

Technology has revolutionized the delivery of mental/behavioral health services, specifically, via widespread expansion of virtual care options. The reliability, speed, portability, and cost of videoconferencing has improved drastically in recent years, allowing telemental health to be accessible and feasible for patients and providers.

The Appalachian region and its people have been misunderstood and misrepresented in media portrayals for over half a century. Appalachia is the 205,000 square mile region that ranges from southern New York to northern Mississippi, as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC).

Technological advances are allowing healthcare providers to interact with their patients as well as other healthcare providers in more modern ways. Today, healthcare providers can communicate with one another more quickly by using technology to address health challenges in a timely manner.

Tele-stroke is an approach to strokes that provides board certified neurologists the ability to perform immediate, real-time, and/or remote diagnosis and treatment to a stroke victim using telehealth technology.