Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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International
●World Health Organization (WHO): Guidance on how to plan and conduct telehealth consultations with children and adolescents and their families (2021)
Canada
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't hesitate to use virtual care to complement in-person visits in order to meet the needs of residents in long-term care during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't require in-person care when a virtual care visit may be more appropriate (2021)
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Providing virtual care during a pandemic – A guide to telemedicine in the paediatric office (2020)
●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't send a patient for a specialist visit that requires several hours of transport if the visit can be done virtually or by a local physician (2020)
United States
●American Academy of Pediatrics: Practice management – Care delivery approaches for telehealth
●American Medical Association (AMA): Telehealth implementation playbook (2022)
●AAP: Policy statement on telehealth – Improving access to and quality of pediatric health care (2021)
●American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): Using telehealth to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
●The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Policy statement on emergency medicine telehealth (2020)
●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on implementing telehealth in practice (2020)
●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Heart Association (AHA): Worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic (2020)
●American Psychological Association (APA): Guidelines for the practice of telepsychology (2019)
●American Telemedicine Association (ATA): Guidelines for teleICU operations (2018)
●American Urological Association (AUA): Policy statement on telemedicine (2017, reaffirmed 2018)
●American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): Clinical update – Telepsychiatry with children and adolescents (2017)
●AHA: A policy statement on recommendations for the implementation of telemedicine within stroke systems of care (2009)
Europe
●European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR): Points to consider for remote care in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (2022)
●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Heart Association (AHA): Worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic (2020)
United Kingdom
India
●Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR): Recommendations on the practice of telemedicine in rheumatology (2022)
●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Guideline for management of diabetes mellitus through teleconsultation during COVID-19 and similar scenarios (2021)
●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Heart Association (AHA): Worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic (2020)
Australia–New Zealand
●Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR): Recommendations on the practice of telemedicine in rheumatology (2022)
●New South Wales (NSW) Health: Guide to undertaking virtual respiratory assessment for adults – Basic and extended (2021)
●The Australasian College of Dermatologists (ACD): Practice guidelines for teledermatology in Australia (2020)
●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Heart Association (AHA): Worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic (2020)
●Australian Medical Association (AMA): Guide on clinical images and the use of personal mobile devices (2014)
Japan
●Asia Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR): Recommendations on the practice of telemedicine in rheumatology (2022)
●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Do not provide unnecessary and non-urgent medical services directly to patients if virtual tools such as telephone and online medical care are available. If possible, postpone unnecessary and urgent medical examinations and tests (2020)
●Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS), the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society (LAHRS), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Heart Association (AHA): Worldwide practice update for telehealth and arrhythmia monitoring during and after a pandemic (2020)
