Telehealth Literacy and Diagnosis Essentials

The 1st of a 4-part series:

Part one:

Learn the foundations of running a successful telehealth practice. Whether you plan to fully pivot your practice, or create a hybrid model, this course will cover everything you need to get it set up.

We’ll go over basic set-up: from HIPAA compliant platforms, good lighting and being zoom ready. We’ll cover legal and insurance concerns.

But most important: Telehealth is not like a face to face intake: To do it well you need to adapt. Hone your inquiry and observational skills and build confidence in yourself to help people in a meaningful and effective way.

Part two:

Learn a process to slow your thinking, unpack complex cases to diagnose patients, write formulas with confidence and modify them so they’re spot on

My slow diagnosis method is a step by step process to deconstruct tricky cases to their core components to eliminate confusion.


	Introduction; Overview of program: Each weekend and survey through internal medicine focusing on common clinical complaints
	Platforms: quick overview: Physical set-up: HIPAA compliant platforms Easily functional note taking process: Maintaining photographic records- partnering with patients Scheduling follow up care and Treatment plans: Factoring in shipping time to patient care. Legal and Insurance limitations Red Herrings: limits and contraindications of telehealth

	Essential skills: Inquiry and observational diagnosis Other clues: facial color, skin texture, nasal, eyes, Partnering with patients for pictures Thoughtful Inquiry: Tongue, shape, color, coating. Shen- Assessing it on telehealth Web-side manner , engagement, eye contact and rapport:


	Dosing: Acute vs Chronic conditions Administration: what’s best for your practice? Granules: conversion charts Liquid: conversion charts Raw: simplify with large, big-bag method Maintaining your own dispensary or having formulas fulfilled. Logistics: Shipping lags: what should be on hand Essentials for colds and flu Essentials for digestive disorders Essentials for Gynecology Essentials for pain Essentials for anxiety, depression and insomnia What's your niche and what you need to keep on hand
	Open discussion: questions. Invitation to private discussion boards, student resources, vendors. Roundup and key reflective questions.


	Preparing for inquiry-based diagnosis: how to ask questions to lead to clear diagnosis. Best to have a philosophical center, which can be TCM or classical. However, the clearer you are in pathogenesis, the clearer your inquiry is, resulting in diagnostic clarity. location location location: Organ, channel, 6 warps, 4 levels. Organizing your thinking: Clinical prioritizing; root, branch or both? Slow down your brain: What's true. What's not? Treating what you see. Avoiding fitting patients into your presumptions:

	Photo presentations: Signs of Heat, Cold, Blood Stasis and Dampness on the tongue and facial cues. Interactive Worksheets
	Reflective exercise and dialogue based on the intake: Where did you get tripped up?

	Dosing: Historical frames of reference for dosing: examples of formulas that change when dosing changes: Understanding the story with dosages; gui zhi tang: xiao jian zhong tang. Bai Hu Tang: chai ge jie ji tang, zhu ye shi gao tang Unpack and deconstruct: A dive into the architecture of a formula. Herbal best friends and typing: Cold, Stuck, weak, combined Differentiating common symptoms: Cold hands and feet, sweat, loose stool Roundup and key reflection questions
	Open discussion: questions. Invitation to private discussion boards, student resources, vendors. Roundup and key reflective questions