Telehealth Micro-credential
Issued by
Purdue University Global
This graduate-level micro-credential covers telehealth in nursing, medical, and behavioral health settings and how to align telehealth applications to legal and ethical requirements, including patient safety, privacy, and quality of care. It analyzes the application, modalities, and strategies for effective telehealth. You will also evaluate multiple methods for providing telebehavioral and clinical health assessments, direct treatments, and establishing professional and therapeutic rapport.
- Type Validation
- Level Advanced
- Time Months
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Telehealth
Earning Criteria
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HS520: Essentials of Telehealth. In this course, you will learn the fundamentals and basic requirements for incorporating telehealth into a medical and behavioral health practice. The course will guide you through the law and ethics of telehealth, decisions for selecting technology to support telehealth in a practice, and documentation requirements and reimbursement models through appropriate coding and billing.
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HS530: Telehealth Coordination. This course covers the roles and responsibilities of a telehealth coordinator while ensuring a high level of quality, safety, and privacy for patients. It covers administrative duties, project management skills, establishing policies and procedures, efficient workflows, educating and supporting clinical and nonclinical staff in their unique roles, and effective marketing of a telehealth program, and how to integrate telehealth into an ambulatory medical practice.
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MN690: Telehealth Application in Clinical Practice. This course will define telemedicine from a provider's perspective. The application, modalities, and strategies to support effective implementation of telehealth into clinical practice will be presented.
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PS509: Telebehavioral Health. In this course, you will learn the key concepts associated with telebehavioral health professional practice. This course will focus on the evidence-based use of telebehavioral health assessment, direct treatment, and navigation of professional rapport and relationships in a virtual setting. Components of the course include critical aspects of cultural diversity, ethics, and safety considerations in telebehavioral health practice.