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The ATA’s Principles for Delivering Telerehabilitation Services - REVISED
August 26, 2026
ATA TeleRehabilitation SIG
This document is a revision of the American Telemedicine Association’s (ATA) Principles for Delivering Telerehabilitation Services (2017) and reflects the current utilization of telerehabilitation services.

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The ATA Telehealth Essentials Guide for Healthcare Providers
August 30, 2023
ATA
The ATA Telehealth Essentials Guide for Healthcare Providers offers eight essentials of effective telehealth services.

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Guidelines for TeleICU Operations
August 26, 2021
The TeleICU Guidelines were developed to assist practitioners in providing assessment, medical intervention, continuous monitoring and/or consultation to the critical care population using telecommunication technologies.

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Practice Guidelines for Ocular Telehealth-Diabetic Retinopathy, Third Edition
August 26, 2020
ATA Ocular SIG
Recommendations for designing, implementing, and sustaining an ocular telehealth care program.

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Practice Guidelines for Telemental Health with Children and Adolescents
August 26, 2017
ATA Telemental Health SIG
This document provides a clinical guideline for the delivery of child and adolescent mental health and behavioral services by a licensed health care provider through real time videoconferencing.

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Practice Guidelines for Telestroke
August 26, 2017
ATA
The telestroke guidelines assist practitioners in providing assessment, diagnosis, management, and/or remote consultative support to patients exhibiting symptoms and signs consistent with an acute stroke syndrome, using telemedicine communication technologies.

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Practice Guidelines for Teleburn Care
August 26, 2016
ATA
These guidelines cover the provision of medical and related healthcare services using telecommunications technologies between patients and their providers as well as among providers (practitioners and specialists) for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with burn injuries.

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Practice Guidelines for TeleDermatology
August 26, 2016
ATA
These guidelines are designed to aid in the development and practice of coherent, effective, safe and sustainable teledermatology practices.

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Practice Guidelines for Live, On Demand Primary and Urgent Care
August 26, 2014
These guidelines cover the provision of direct-to-patient, primary and urgent care services delivered by licensed health care providers using online, real-time videoconferencing and audio technologies.

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Clinical Guidelines for Telepathology
August 26, 2014
This document is an update to the original ATA telepathology guideline and provides new and updated guidance on specific applications, practice, benefits, limitations, and regulatory issues that may arise in the practice of telepathology.

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Core Operational Guidelines for Telehealth Services Involving Provider-Patient Interactions
August 26, 2013
ATA
These guidelines provide an update to the previously published Core Standards for Telemedicine Operations (Nov.

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Practice Guidelines for Videoconferencing-Based Telemental Health
August 26, 2013
ATA Telemental Health SIG
Guidelines to assist in the development and practice of coherent, effective, safe and sustainable telemental health practices.

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Practice Guidelines for Video-Based Online Mental Health Services
August 26, 2013
ATA Telemental Health SIG
Covering the provision of mental health services when using real-time videoconferencing services transmitted via the Internet, including a personal computer with a webcam or a mobile communications device (e.

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Home Telehealth Clinical Guidelines
August 26, 2003
ATA Home and Community Telehealth SIG
ATA has produced the Home Telehealth guideline to encompass these differences and establish a set of universal principles guiding the development and deployment of home telehealth in the future.

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