Libraries in locations across the United States are beginning to offer their patrons access to telehealth services as a strategy for addressing inequities in digital access to healthcare. This class introduces telehealth, why it’s important, and how it enables people to have greater access to quality healthcare. Explore how different libraries provided patrons in their communities with access to telehealth services. This class will address privacy and ethical concerns, and review the technology and infrastructure needed to launch a successful telehealth program in your library. The class consists of three one-hour modules.
This is an online class taught in Moodle over the course of 4 weeks.
This class addresses increasing health equity through information, increasing health information access and use, and the NNLM initiative of Bridging the Digital Divide by identifying infrastructure-related resources available to the library for providing telehealth services. In addition, the class covers the role of the library in support of digital skills training for telehealth and describes different models of telehealth access within libraries that have been used by NNLM-funded projects.
Agenda
- Pre-test
- Module 1: Telehealth in Libraries Reading & Activity
- Module 2: Considerations for Telehealth in Libraries Reading & Activity
- Module 3: Telehealth Infrastructure Reading & Activity
- Post-test
- Final Assignment
By working through three 1-hour modules of interactive content and completing a pre and post-test, learners will be able to:
- Distinguish between the different approaches/models to providing telehealth access within libraries.
- Discuss considerations such as privacy and policy for offering telehealth access within libraries.
- Identify infrastructure-related resources available to the library for providing telehealth services.
- Describe the role of the library in support of digital skills training for telehealth.
3 hours over 4 weeks