Telenursing and Remote Access to Telehealth

Question 1

Registered nurse-staffed facilities at which nurses typically act as case managers for callers or perform patient triage.

Answer 1

Call Centers

Question 2

Range of long-term diseases, such as congestive heart failure, diabetes, and respiratory ailments.

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Chronic Disease

Question 3

Multifunctional telehealthcare platforms for receiving, retrieving, and/or displaying patients’ vital sign and other information transmitted from telecommunications-ready medical devices

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Central Stations/Web Servers/Portals

Question 4

Alternate site care health services typically focusing on post-hospital discharge patient needs

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Home Healthcare

Question 5

Home healthcare clinical and educational services provided via telecommunications-ready tools.

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Home Telehealthcare

Question 6

Range of telecommunications ready medication devices to remind or
otherwise, alert patients to medication compliance needs

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Medication Management Devices

Question 7

Center for Medicate and Medicare required process of collecting and reporting performance data by home
healthcare agencies.

Answer 7

Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)

Question 8

measurable effects resulting
from best practice treatment interventions that improve/stabilize the course of health over time

Answer 8

Patient Health Outcomes

Question 9

Document that a patient signs
to agree to treatment; document which a home healthcare patient signs to agree to receive telehealthcare services in addition to conventional home healthcare.

Answer 9

Patient Informed Consent

Question 10

Signaling devices for patients to access emergency and other care needs.

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Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)

Question 11

Range of telecommunications-ready measurement devices, such as blood
pressure cuffs and blood glucose meters, that typically use the household telephone jack to transmit patient data to a central server
location

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Peripheral Biometric (Medical) Devices

Question 12

Live interactions between 2 or more clinicians, usually performed with videoconferencing equipment.

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Real-Time Telehealth

Question 13

Systems for tracking activities of daily living (ADLs) of seniors and other at-risk individuals in their place of residence. Additional applications are sensors’ use in detecting anomalies or problems such as faucets and stoves left turned on

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Sensor and Activity Monitoring System

Question 14

Application of telehealthcare, in
which images and other clinical data are captured and transmitted to
specialist clinicians

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Store-and-Forward Telehealth

Question 15

Health services delivered by telecommunications-ready tools,
usually supervised by a nurse or other clinician

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Telehealthcare

Question 16

Telecommunication technologies used to deliver health-related services or to connect patients and healthcare providers to maximize patients’ health status. A relatively new term in our medical/nursing vocabulary, referring to a wide range of health services that are delivered by telecommunications-ready tools such as the telephone, videophone, and computer

Answer 16

Telehealth

Question 17

Health services delivered by telecommunication ready tools supervised or directed by a physician.

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Telemedicine

Question 18

Remote measurement of patients’ vital signs and other necessary data.

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Telemonitoring

Question 19

Telephone monitoring of patients at home by off-site telenurses

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Telephony

Question 20

Use of telecommunications technology to electronically transmit and exchange radiographic patient images with the consultative text or radiologist reports from one location to another

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Teleradiology

Question 21

Use of telecommunications technology to facilitate the transmission and transfer of pathology data for the purposes of diagnosis, education and research; transmission and exchange of image-rich pathology data between remote locations

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Telepathology

Question 22

referring to and a wide range of health services that are delivered by telecommunications-ready tools, such as the telephone, videophone, and computer

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Telehealth

Question 23

is generally used as an umbrella term to describe all of the possible variations of healthcare services
which use telecommunications.

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Telehealth