Telemedicine For Adolescent And Young Adult Health Care: A Case-Based Guide

While there are general texts on telemedicine and guidelines on the use of telemedicine in pediatrics, there are no texts focused specifically on the provision of health care to adolescents and young adults using telemedicine. Adolescents and young adults have more unique health care needs than both adults and children, including the need to receive developmentally appropriate services and care that may be provided in settings outside of the standard clinical office (such as school-based care). In addition, in most US states, adolescents are capable of providing consent for some but not all medical care, highlighting the critical importance of providing services in a manner that adheres to regulations around consent and confidentiality. 

 

Telemedicine for Adolescent and Young Adult Health Care offers readers case-based content written by experts in the fields of adolescent medicine and telemedicine. There are a variety of chapters that include anemphasis on equity, diversity, and inclusion and will include local and federal rules, regulations, and considerations for ensuring privacy in the modern electronic health record. The first chapter offers a general overview and history of telemedicine. The next one focuses on telemedicine and epidemics. The chapters in the middle detail a variety of topics related to telemedicine such as confidentiality, equity, telemedicine and learners, school-based care, telemedicine in primary care and ambulatory consultative care. The book closes out by emphasizing additional populations such as youth involved in the juvenile carcel system, homeless/housing insecure, foster involved youth and youth with developmental delay. It is a valuable resource for adolescent medicine specialists, pediatricians, primary care physicians and any other professional who treats the adolescent population.

The editors offer expertise in adolescent medicine as well as the use of telemedicine to provide health services to adolescents and young adults. 

Dr. Yolanda Evans is the current Division Head of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital, served as the director of telemedicine at a stand-alone Pediatric hospital for four years and has provided telemedicine services to adolescents for nearly a decade. 

Dr. Sarah Golub is Program Director of the Adolescent Medicine fellowship at the University of Washington and has pioneered adapting trainee education into telemedicine encounters in the program. 

 

Dr. Gina Sequeira is the co-director of the Seattle Children’s Hospital Gender Clinic andresearch focuses on understanding how best to use telemedicine to expand access to gender-affirming care. All 3 editors co-authored a peer reviewed manuscript on the use of telemedicine in adolescent health during the COVID-19 pandemic. This book will provide an overview of the use of telemedicine to improve access to care for adolescents and young adults with highlights on advances that have occurred during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.