May 6, 2025
Telehealth Best Practice Guides
Whether you are an administrator, hospitalist, or private practitioner – learn how others in your field are using telehealth to connect with patients. Get practical recommendations on billing, strategy, and more to help understand if telehealth is right for you.
Telehealth.HHS currently has 22 Telehealth Best Practice Guides, including but not limited to:
- Privacy and security for telehealth
- Ensuring the privacy and security of patient health information is essential for patients to feel comfortable using telehealth.
- Telehealth accreditation
- Telehealth accreditation helps ensure that telehealth programs adhere to standards, evidence-based best practices, and regulations.
- Telehealth and remote patient monitoring
- Remote patient monitoring is the use of digital devices to monitor a patient’s health.
- Telehealth for American Indian and Alaska Native communities
- Learn how to tailor your telehealth practice to the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
- Telehealth for behavioral health care
- Telehealth is an effective tool that expands access to behavioral health services.
- Telehealth and cancer care
- Explore the growing practice of tele-oncology and how telehealth is being successfully used as part of an integrative plan for the treatment of cancer.
- Telehealth for diabetes management
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in every ten people in America have diabetes and an additional 96 million people are living with pre-diabetes. Telehealth and telemedicine can be effective tools to manage diabetes.
- Telehealth for HIV care
- Telehealth can be used to diagnose, treat, prevent and create a community wide response to HIV.
- Telehealth for infants and toddlers
- Find information and resources on how to use telehealth to improve maternal health care access.
- Telehealth for maternal health services
- Find information and resources on how to use telehealth to improve maternal health care access.
- Telehealth for rural areas
- Learn strategies for developing a rural telehealth program.
- Telehealth for substance use disorder
- Find information and resources on using telehealth for substance use disorder treatment.
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