TY - CHAP
T1 - Community care
T2 - To ‘tele’, or not to ‘tele’? Considerations from the medico-legal and operational perspectives
AU - Tong, Kar-wai
N1 - Months information and Research Unit(s) information for this publication is provided by the author(s) concerned.
PY - 2021/9/20
Y1 - 2021/9/20
N2 - Community care and telehealth are brotherly strategies to manage global health care challenges and to help sustain health care systems. Community care as a complementary alternative to hospital care has been supported notably by a wealth of literature for its impacts on health care, whereas telehealth in its broader definition brings innovative modes of care by breaking both territorial and clinical boundaries and it has been growing internationally with a glittering financial outlook. Alongside the rapid proliferated advancements of information and communication technology, in particular the extensive penetration of smartphones in day-to-day living since the last decade and the emergence of artificial intelligence as a tool for health care, it has become more and more ‘trendy’ in community care to use telehealth applications for clinical purposes. The COVID-19 pandemic has further catalysed the growth of telehealth at the community level. That said, telehealth is not legal-risk free. In this chapter, the author discusses potential medico-legal risks and other operational concerns inherent in telehealth applications for community care, with an attempt to provide some references for health care practitioners and institutes to facilitate their better planning in the use of telehealth in the context of community care.
AB - Community care and telehealth are brotherly strategies to manage global health care challenges and to help sustain health care systems. Community care as a complementary alternative to hospital care has been supported notably by a wealth of literature for its impacts on health care, whereas telehealth in its broader definition brings innovative modes of care by breaking both territorial and clinical boundaries and it has been growing internationally with a glittering financial outlook. Alongside the rapid proliferated advancements of information and communication technology, in particular the extensive penetration of smartphones in day-to-day living since the last decade and the emergence of artificial intelligence as a tool for health care, it has become more and more ‘trendy’ in community care to use telehealth applications for clinical purposes. The COVID-19 pandemic has further catalysed the growth of telehealth at the community level. That said, telehealth is not legal-risk free. In this chapter, the author discusses potential medico-legal risks and other operational concerns inherent in telehealth applications for community care, with an attempt to provide some references for health care practitioners and institutes to facilitate their better planning in the use of telehealth in the context of community care.
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U2 - 10.4324/9781003119111-26-30
DO - 10.4324/9781003119111-26-30
M3 - RGC 12 - Chapter in an edited book (Author)
SN - 978-0-367-63419-3
SN - 978-0-367-63420-9
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
SP - 286
EP - 301
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community
A2 - Fong, Ben Y.F.
A2 - Wong, Martin C.S.
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -