This course reduces risk and provides education and competency to meet regulatory and licensure requirements for practitioners providing Telehealth services to patients while reducing risk in the disclosure and informed consent process. Ensuring patients understand disclosures, can provide informed consent, implementing emergency procedures for distant patient care, verifying privacy, location of services provided, and safety, with unique challenges of Telehealth to grant permission of use based on the knowledge of possible patient consequences.

Course Format:

Telehealth Disclosure and Informed Consent Part 1

• Patient Understanding of Disclosures and Providing Informed Consent
• Aspects of Informed Consent Specific to Telehealth
• Protocol for Social Media
• Protocol for Establishing Local Resources and Emergency Contact

Telehealth Disclosure and Informed Consent Part 2

• Apply Procedures for Emergencies
• Protocol for Verification of Patient Location
• Establish Patient Location Prior to Appointment
• Protocol for Verification of Patient Identity
• Establish Patient Identity Prior to Appointment
• Protocol for Verification of Patient Privacy
• Establish Patient Privacy Prior to Appointment
• Protocol for Verification of Patient Safety
• Establish Patient Safety Prior to Appointment
• Requirements Establish Patient Identity in Telehealth
• Protocol Management for Technical Difficulties
• Unique Challenges and Risks of Telehealth

Telehealth Disclosure and Informed Consent Part 3

• Address Concerns of Patients Related to Telehealth
• Monitor Ongoing Informed Consent
• Managing Disclosures in Telehealth
• Informed Consent Process in Telehealth

Telehealth Disclosure and Informed Consent Part 4

• Ethically Gathering Informed Consent
• Appropriate Use of Social Media
• Elements of a Patient Safety Plan
• Resources Available to Troubleshoot Telehealth Issues