Discussion: Telehealth for Physical Therapist Practice


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Telehealth--the delivery of health-related services and information via telecommunications technologies--is emerging as one way to improve quality and access to health care. Alan Lee and Nancy Harada, in their Health Policy in Perspective article "Telehealth as a Means of Health Care Delivery for Physical Therapist Practice" (March 2012), examine some of the biggest barriers to the implementation of telehealth in the physical therapy profession--reimbursement and licensure--and identify strategies to overcome them. In this podcast, Alan Lee, PT, PhD, DPT, CWS, GCS, Katharine Stout, PT, DPT, CBIS, and moderator Michel Landry, PT, PhD, discuss the opportunity that telehealth provides to the physical therapy profession--and what will happen if the profession doesn't seize this opportunity. Are patients and clinicians comfortable with telehealth? What is the role of the private sector in addressing telehealth? How can the profession prepare the next generation of physical therapists for telehealth? What can physical therapists do at the grassroots level to implement telehealth? The opinions expressed by Dr Stout in this presentation are her personal views and do not reflect the official views of the Department of Defense or United States government.
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