Friday, September 3, 2010

Practice Guidelines

These links document how thought about telerehabilitation is currently organized. With time, more practice guidelines will be produced. The American Telemedicine Association is working on telerehabilitation practice guidelines currently, and that document will be linked from here when completed.

ATA Telemedicine Standards and Guidelines
www.americantelemed.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3311

Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists: Position Paper
www.caslpa.ca/PDF/position%20papers/telepractice.pdf

Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists: Position Statement
www.caot.ca/pdfs/telehealthPS.pdf

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: Professional issues in Telepractice
www.asha.org/docs/html/PI2010-00315.html

American Physical Therapy Association: Definitions
www.apta.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Policies_and_Bylaws1&CONTENTID=67459&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

American Telemedicine Association: Telemental health practice guidelines
www.atmeda.org/files/public/standards/PracticeGuidelinesforVideoconferencing-Based%20TelementalHealth.pdf