Guidance of best practices to assist in hosting telemedicine visit for patients who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or DeadBlind.
Patient tool: Connecting Hearing devices to audio during telehealth video meetings
Fact sheet for hard of hearing patients with detailed instructions on how to connect their hearing devices to audio for teleath video meetings
Telehealth Provider tool: American Sign Language Interpreters in Telehealth Appointments
Manuscript informing providers what they need to know when an interpreter is involved during an apporintment.
Telehealth Provider tool: How to talk on the phone or video call to a person who is hard of hearing.
Hard of Hearing fact sheet for providers in order to help ensure a successful telehealth call with someone Hard of Hearing
ActiveHip+: A feasible mHealth system for the recovery of older adults after hip surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A study testing the feasiility of ActiveHip+ mHealth tool to aid older afults post hip surgery.
Telehealth with older adults: Getting it right
Telehealth being available for older adults can only have a clear advantage if there are guidelines in place to help facilitate its deployment and use. This specifically is targeted towards older patietns who may be “complex” or “vulnerable” in these settings. The guidelines are sorted into 3 main categories in which each domain must be cnosidered in order to ensure high-quality telehealth-facilated care will be able to properly be delivered to older adults.
Association between in-person vs telehealth follow-up and rates of repeated hospital visits among patients seen in the emergency department
A retrospective cohort study that aimed to compare the rates of emergency department return visits and hospitalizations between patients who received in-person follow-up care and those who received telehealth follow-up care after being discharged from the ED
The Collaborative for Telehealth and Aging: Principles and Guidelines for Providing Telehealth to Older Adults
Principles and guidelines that create a roadmap for providers and health systems to take actionable steps to meet the needs of older adults.
Motivations, Barriers, And Capabilities For Telehealth Delivery Of Emergency Care Services
Learnings from a survey for EM providers providing understanding of telehealth usage in EDs, barriers to telehealth in emergency care, and how to motivate providers towards adoption.
Telehealth for Older Adults: Principles, Guidelines and Lessons Learned
Webinar describing a framework that healthcare organizations can use to develop and enhance telemedicine for older adults.
FQHC Telehealth Best Practices: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic Session 1
FQHC stakeholders illustrate their approaches for achieving telehealth access equity and effectively engaging patients.
You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But What If They Don’t Know How To Drink? Customer Technical Support in Virtual Care
Slide deck illustrating strategy and considerations for consumer technical support in the telehealth context.