Telenursing and Remote Access to Telehealth Flashcards
Registered nurse-staffed facilities at which nurses typically act as case managers for callers or perform patient triage.
Call Centers
Range of long-term diseases, such as congestive heart failure, diabetes, and respiratory ailments.
Chronic Disease
Multifunctional telehealthcare platforms for receiving, retrieving, and/or displaying patients’ vital sign and other information transmitted from telecommunications-ready medical devices
Central Stations/Web Servers/Portals
Alternate site care health services typically focusing on post-hospital discharge patient needs
Home Healthcare
Home healthcare clinical and educational services provided via telecommunications-ready tools.
Home Telehealthcare
Range of telecommunications ready medication devices to remind or
otherwise, alert patients to medication compliance needs
Medication Management Devices
Center for Medicate and Medicare required process of collecting and reporting performance data by home
healthcare agencies.
Outcomes and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)
measurable effects resulting
from best practice treatment interventions that improve/stabilize the course of health over time
Patient Health Outcomes
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.
Patient Informed Consent
Signaling devices for patients to access emergency and other care needs.
Personal Emergency Response System (PERS)
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
Peripheral Biometric (Medical) Devices
Live interactions between 2 or more clinicians, usually performed with videoconferencing equipment.
Real-Time Telehealth
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
Sensor and Activity Monitoring System
Application of telehealthcare, in
which images and other clinical data are captured and transmitted to
specialist clinicians
Store-and-Forward Telehealth
Health services delivered by telecommunications-ready tools,
usually supervised by a nurse or other clinician
Telehealthcare
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
Telehealth
Health services delivered by telecommunication ready tools supervised or directed by a physician.
Telemedicine
Remote measurement of patients’ vital signs and other necessary data.
Telemonitoring
Telephone monitoring of patients at home by off-site telenurses
Telephony
Use of telecommunications technology to electronically transmit and exchange radiographic patient images with the consultative text or radiologist reports from one location to another
Teleradiology
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
Telepathology
referring to and a wide range of health services that are delivered by telecommunications-ready tools, such as the telephone, videophone, and computer
Telehealth
is generally used as an umbrella term to describe all of the possible variations of healthcare services
which use telecommunications.
Telehealth
