Telehealth: Implications for Social Work Practice

Telehealth, the use of modern information technology to deliver health services to remote locations, poses both opportunities and problems for social work. Home health "visits" featuring a social worker in one state and a patient in another, therapy on the Internet, and the transmission of...

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Published in:Social work (New York) 2002-04, Vol.47 (2), p.153-161
Main Authors: McCarty, Dawn, Clancy, Catherine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Anxiety Disorders
Caseworker Approach
Chat rooms
Computer Security
Confidentiality
Costs
Counseling
Delivery
Delivery Systems
Depression (Psychology)
Education, Distance
Electronic mail
Email
Ethics
Health care delivery
Health conditions
Health Policy
Home Health Care
Humans
Information processing systems
Information Technology
Informed Consent
Interactive Video
Internet
Liability, Legal
licensing
Licensure
Malpractice
Medical practice
Medical Records Systems, Computerized
Medicare
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
Modeling (Psychology)
Patients
Practice
Privacy
Psychiatry
Psychopathology
Psychotherapy
Rating Scales
Reimbursement
Remote areas
Resistance (Psychology)
Social aspects
Social service
Social services
Social Work
Social Work - organization & administration
technology
Telecommunications
telehealth
Telemedicine
Telemedicine - organization & administration
United States
Video conferencing
Videoconferencing
Videotape Recorders
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Summary:Telehealth, the use of modern information technology to deliver health services to remote locations, poses both opportunities and problems for social work. Home health "visits" featuring a social worker in one state and a patient in another, therapy on the Internet, and the transmission of patient records across state and national boundaries raise important ethical and legal questions. This article examines how modern communications technologies such as e-mail, interactive e-mail, and interactive videoconferencing affect social work practice, with emphasis on the legal, ethical, and relationship issues raised.
ISSN:0037-8046
1545-6846
DOI:10.1093/sw/47.2.153