What we’ve done so far
Planted a lot of seeds! Through the last decade, as many spoke/wrote about the “promise of home telehealth,” our talks for national home healthcare and other organizations, articles, and Web sites, as well as hands-on work with clinicians and patients, by Information For Tomorrow and by our Board members, have provided practical means for moving all of us decidedly forward with home telehealth and telehospice.
Take some of the well received writings by Information For Tomorrow:
- Telehospice: A resource manual for program development and implementation (Asheville, NC: Information For Tomorrow, 2004).
156-page practical report on today’s newest frontier in telehealth delivery, telehospice. It includes sample forms and policies, a telehospice pathway, and focuses on legal issues.
From a personal note from a nurse with more than 35 years’ nursing and home healthcare experience:
I read the book...it's wonderful....I love how you give real information to people, not just "pie in the sky" stuff. Agencies can really get a hands-on feeling when they read the book. I also like how you reference real agencies that are doing it. Great job!
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- Home telehealth: process, policy, and procedures (Kensington, MD: Information for Tomorrow, 2003).
- 150-page practical text providing 5 sample policies and 14 forms, and case studies that cover needed detail on telehealth procedure, planning, and delivery.
- From an early bird review:
If you are adding telehealth technologies for home care, you need a detailed guide in navigating the prickly points of applications. [This book] provides this roadmap complete with rest stops!” |
- Home healthcare: Wired and ready for telemedicine, the nurses’ and nursing students’ edition, Rev. and updated. (Kensington, MD: Information For Tomorrow, 2003)
- Easy-to-read, practical companion text to the policy manual, with special focuses on telehealth care interventions for patients with diabetes and with CHF. A
- 125-page research report,which also received the valued 5-star rating from Doody’s Medical Review.
- From the review:
From time to time a literary work serves as a pacesetter for a profession. Someone is able to pull together what seems the obvious next professional giant step that will serve to improve our healthcare delivery. |
- Home healthcare: Wired and ready for telemedicine (Sunriver, OR: Information for Tomorrow, 1997).
- Selected by CHOICE (a national book reviewing organization) as among the top
150 medical books published in the US in the 1997. 230-page research report, also received 5-star rating from Doody’s Medical Review.
- Selected by CHOICE (a national book reviewing organization) as among the top
All of these texts highlighted numerous case studies to show if and how the technology works. Several also included sample comprehensive forms and policies to help clinicians not waste time re-inventing any wheels but instead get their home telehealth programs started on a sure and focused footing.
What now, for new directions? We’re ready to assist you. Our network of experts and doers in home telehealth is extensive. We’re confident that information about home telehealth use and planning can easily be made available for you right here. If it isn’t— ask us, and we’ll try to assist.