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Virtual Therapy Visits – Can We Provide High Quality Therapy to Underserved Communities Via Telehealth Technology?
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Kerstin Palm
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital, Boston, United States
| Veröffentlicht: | 6. Februar 2020 |
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Clinical issue/s: The World Health Organization and the World Federation of Occupational Therapists have both identified significant global deficits for skilled rehabilitation clinicians, as well as a significant and expanding need for skilled therapy services [1], [2]. Given emerging technologies, including telehealth platform technologies for virtual visits, can therapy services - physical therapy and occupational therapy - be effectively delivered to remote geographies utilizing this technology?
Clinical reasoning: I will present our pilot study on the delivery of skilled rehabilitation services for post-operative surgical upper extremity patients via a virtual care platform. I will discuss the successes and challenges associated with this model.
Innovative, analytical or new approach: The use of telehealth technology to complete skilled therapy intervention via virtual visits to patients in remote geographies.
Contribution to advancing HT practice: Contribute to the wellbeing of the global population by expanding access to highly skilled clinicians for patients in geographies currently underserved in health care specialties such as orthopedics.
