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Telehealth Foundations: Applications Across Professions

Learn to use telehealth as an innovative healthcare tool

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100% online | Self-paced and interactive | Begin anytime!

The Telehealth Foundations online certificate course will provide you with a foundational understanding of telehealth as an innovative healthcare tool. Modules highlight key components of four chief telehealth modalities: 

  • Live Video
  • Store and Forward (asynchronous)
  • Remote Patient Monitoring
  • Mobile Health (mHealth)

Designed for health professionals, educators, administrators, and policy makers looking to expand their knowledge, scope, or practice in telehealth.  

  • Dentistry
  • Medicine
  • Nursing
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Pharmacy
  • Physical Therapy
  • Social Work
  • Speech-language Pathology

This 12-hour CE course features thorough and informative video presentations from interprofessional industry experts, real-life use cases, interactive knowledge checks, and a curated resource library of podcasts, articles, web resources, and literature offering a deep dive into telehealth.

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Learning Outcomes

Apply ethical principles in the use of telehealth modalities

Describe the current applications of telehealth modalities: Live Video, Store and Forward (asynchronous), Remote Patient Monitoring and mobile health (mHealth)

Describe reimbursement regulations pertaining to various telehealth modalities

Identify how to use telehealth in one's own practice setting or industry

Apply appropriate regulatory and reimbursement principles to one’s current or envisioned program

Outline important historical achievements in telehealth development

Learners will hear from an interprofessional group of contributors from Massachusetts General Hospital, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Veterans Administration (VA) Healthcare Boston, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Joslin Diabetes Center, ATSU Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health, University of Southern California, University of Missouri Center for Health Ethics, and more.

Course Directors

Christie Lucente, MS, PA-C

Chief Physician Assistant of Operations at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine

Emily M. Hayden, MD, MHPE

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, attending physician and Director of Telemedicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mass General Hospital

Continuing Education Credits

MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this activity for 12.0 contact hours for nurses. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.

MGH Institute of Health Professions designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

MGH Institute of Health Professions has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 12.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until February 2025. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

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As a Jointly Accredited Organization, MGH Institute of Health Professions is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. MGH Institute of Health Professions maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 12.0 clock hours for continuing education credits.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 12.0- Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

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The MGH Institute of Health Professions is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team, and the IHP Office of Continuing and Professional Development holds Joint Accreditation provider status by the Joint Accreditation Interprofessional Continuing Education organization. Joint Accreditation is a national public recognition of a continuing education provider’s demonstration of a proven educational commitment to improving team-based interprofessional knowledge and skills that support the health and wellness of patients and clients. 

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