Strategy: Introduction to Telehealth and Enabling Technologies
Stanford University
Gain a grounding in telehealth implementation from expert faculty at Stanford Medicine. Learn about the evolution of telehealth and explore contemporary approaches for incorporating telehealth technologies into a healthcare practice.
About this Course
Today, telehealth is a mainstream healthcare practice and an increasingly important tool for healthcare providers. In this course from the Stanford Center for Health Education (SCHE), you will learn how telehealth can improve the patient experience, and you will investigate the strategic business value of implementing telehealth in your organization. You will also explore a broad range of telehealth technologies and how they can be integrated in practice. These strategic foundations will equip you to build a clinical and business case for a telehealth program, and to determine how to meet the technological requirements.
What You'll Learn
- The key applications of telehealth and their benefits and challenges.
- The ways in which telehealth creates value for the patient.
- The business value derived from the strategic implementation of telehealth.
- The technologies that enable telehealth and innovation.
- The decision-making frameworks that drive effective technology integration.
Instructors
Natalie M. Pageler, MD, MEd
Chief Medical Information Officer, Stanford Children’s Health; Clinical Professor of Pediatric Critical Care and Program Director of the Clinical Informatics Fellowship
Christopher Sharp, MD
Chief Medical Information Officer, Stanford Health Care; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine