Telehealth: A Rapidly Developing Service Delivery Model For Occupational Therapy

Over the past decade, the practice of occupational therapy has been increasingly influenced by technological advances in the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and associated changes in health care policy. Emergent from this evolution is the application of telehealth to deliver occupational therapy services to a client who is in a different physical location than the provider. This article furnishes an overview of the evidence for telehealth use in occupational therapy, discusses key policy considerations, and provides resources to guide practitioners in the ethical use of telehealth.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  International Journal of Telerehabilitation

• Publication date

  2014-09-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5195/ijt.2014.6148PMID 25945220PMCID 4352999
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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