Course Overview
Introduces the emerging field to telehealth. Summarizes the history of telehealth and a state-of-the-art review. Describes the components of a telehealth system as well as the benefits and barriers to telehealth systems. Includes a section on how to set up a telehealth system. Covers an introduction to telehealth evaluation and e-health.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
3.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
- Differentiate between telehealth, telemedicine, telematics and ehealth.
- Describe (with examples) the historical development of the field and present day telehealth activities.
- List the components that make up a telehealth system.
- Describe different types of telehealth technologies and demonstrate an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Differentiate between several telecommunications modalities and demonstrate an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Explain the importance of bandwidth and compression to telehealth delivery.
- Demonstrate an understanding of what happens to information/data as it moves through a telehealth network.
- Identify the most appropriate workstations and telecommunications modalities for different telehealth activities.
- Outline the steps in setting up a telehealth system.
- Identify the benefits and barriers associated with telehealth.
- Outline potential ways to overcome the barriers to telehealth.
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of how to evaluate different types of telehealth systems.
- Discuss potential future applications of ehealth.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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