Telehealth is a critical infrastructure to efficiently implement the medical home model of care and provide high-value, coordinated and unfragmented health care. Telehealth services include a continuum of remote and in-person care options, such as audiovisual, audio only (telephone), store and forward, portal interactions and remote patient monitoring.

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Telehealth Tips for Pediatricians

Breaking Down Telehealth Barriers in Your Practice

For pediatricians, tips for minimizing common barriers in providing telehealth care.

How to Sustain Telehealth Within Your Pediatric Practice

This tip sheet aims to provide practical considerations for sustaining telehealth in your practice.

Minimizing Telehealth Technology Barriers in Rural and Underserved Communities

Practical ideas to help pediatricians, who serve in rural and underserved communities, overcome four common technology-related telehealth barriers.

How to Prepare Families for a Telehealth Visit

This tip sheet includes steps for clinicians and the care team to implement in order to ensure their families/caregivers are well informed before, during and after a telehealth visit.

Ensuring Equitable Access to Telehealth for Diverse and Underserved Communities

This tip sheet provides information and strategies to facilitate equitable access to telehealth for families/caregivers and patients.

Telehealth and Adolescent Care

Many adolescent health care services can be provided via telehealth. Learn how to prepare for and conduct virtual telehealth visits with adolescent patients.

Tips for AAP Chapters: Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Care via Telehealth by Partnering with PMHCA Programs

Review tips and information about partnering with Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Programs to increase access to behavioral health services.

Toolkit: Promoting Telehealth

Download and share social media graphics, videos and links to HealthyChildren.org articles to help families in your practice better understand the basics of a telehealth appointment and how to get ready for one. 

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Facilitated Mini Trainings: Telehealth

The AAP has developed Facilitated Mini Trainings related to telehealth for pediatrics. These telehealth-specific trainings provide educational content in short 15-20 minute presentations.

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Professional Tools and Resources

Coding for Telemedicine Services

Review this tip sheet for information on coding for telemedicine services.

Promising Practices: Enhancing Access to Pediatric Care via Telehealth

Pediatric clinicians may use this compilation of promising practice key implementation strategies, quick tips and lessons learned to help support their own telehealth implementation, measurement, and sustainability efforts.

Fostering an Antiracist and Equitable Telehealth Environment

Explore ways in which pediatric clinicians can talk with their patients and families about the impact of racism on their health and wellbeing, and what it means to create a welcoming and equitable health care environment (virtually or in-person).

Caring for Mental Health via Telehealth: Short Videos

The AAP has developed 2 short videos for pediatric clinicians related to caring for the behavioral/mental health of children and adolescents via telehealth. These videos highlight some unique opportunities and considerations related to addressing adolescent substance use in a telehealth environment, as well as addressing suicide risk in a telehealth environment.

AAP Virtual Office Hour Session Recordings

AAP Virtual Office Hour Sessions are 30-minute webinars about telehealth-related topics. Attendees participate in an interactive Q&A session following a presentation conducted by subject matter experts. View previously recorded sessions here.

PediaLink Course: Providing Telehealth and Distant Care Services in Pediatrics

This 6-unit PediaLink course provides information for pediatric health care professionals on how to increase their pediatric team capacity in providing preventive, acute and chronic care via telehealth for children and adolescents.

PediaLink Course: Using Telehealth to Support Mental Health Care in Pediatrics

This is a nine-unit course intended to support pediatric clinicians in providing telehealth for mental health care in pediatrics, as part of the medical home model of care.

Improving Your Webside Manner During Telehealth Visits

During telehealth visits, your “webside manner” is just as important as your bedside manner during in-person visits. This video provides tips for pediatricians on improving your webside manner.

Telehealth: Indispensable Care Modality: A Multistakeholder Symposium to Explore Barriers and Opportunities to Improve Equity and Value of Virtual Care

This brief is a summary of the discussion and prioritized recommended action items identified regarding the continued use of telehealth in pediatric care.

Pediatric Telephone Protocols, 17th Edition

From telehealth pioneer Barton D. Schmitt, MD, FAAP, this award-winning office essential efficiently steps triagers through more than 141 decision support protocols spanning 98% of today's most common complaints.

Pediatric Telehealth Best Practices

Pediatric Telehealth Best Practices goes beyond AAP policy to offer straightforward strategies for establishing and sustaining a successful telehealth program. Its contents are curated from AAP published content, including guidance from the AAP Section on Telehealth Care as well as journals and books.

Pediatrics On Call Podcasts: Telehealth

Pediatrics On Call is the official podcast of the AAP. Listen to podcast episodes related to telehealth services.

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Telehealth Case Studies

Care Planning and Coordinating Transitions from Inpatient to Outpatient Settings

This use case was developed to guide decision making related to coordinating care via telehealth for a child affected by COVID-19.This resource is part of the Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum, 2nd Edition.

Using Telehealth to Coordinate Care for Youth with Complex Needs Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care

This use case was developed to guide collaborative communication among youth, families and the care team via telehealth. This resource is part of the Pediatric Care Coordination Curriculum, 2nd Edition.

 

Audio Only Services

After Hours Telephone Care

​​​Each pediatric practice must evaluate how best to manage after-hours calls. Consider these factors when reviewing a traditional telephone answering service or an after-hours call center.

Tips for Triage Nurses

Practical tips for triage nurses, including documentation do’s and don'ts, and how to handle busy seasons.

Get Involved

Section on Telehealth Care
The Section on Telehealth Care serves as a forum for pediatricians and other health care providers interested in collecting, analyzing, discussing and disseminating current practices and charting new directions for pediatric telehealth care through education, research, advocacy and policy development.
SPROUT
Supporting Pediatric Research on Outcomes and Utilization of Telehealth.
Last Updated

02/12/2022

Source

American Academy of Pediatrics