- Title
- Telehealth Models of Service Delivery-A Brave New World
- Creator
- English, C.; Fritz, N. E.; Gomes-Osman, J.
- Relation
- Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy Vol. 47, Issue 4, p. 187-188
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NPT.0000000000000457
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Providing physiotherapy or other health care services in alternative ways to face to face in-person delivery has been around for many years. One of the earliest examples is a trial published in 1977 comparing telephone consultations to in-person education to parents of children with disabilities.1 As technology has developed, research into alternative models of remote health care delivery has exploded. A large range of options now exist, covering the spectrum from assessment to intervention and including real-time video consultations, remote monitoring, health care mobile applications, and Web-based platforms. As the different ways in which remote health care can be offered have increased, so too has the variation in terminology. This can be problematic; for example, a search of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews using the key words “telehealth or telerehabilitation or telemedicine or e-health or m-health” resulted in only 41 hits. Adding the term “digital health” and “virtual care” increased the yield to 137 reviews, but this included unrelated topics, for example, related to digital nerve blocks, or virtual reality training (that can occur either in-person or remotely).
- Subject
- health care services; telehealth; digital health; virtual care
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1495394
- Identifier
- uon:54000
- Identifier
- ISSN:1557-0576
- Language
- eng
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