Optimizing Patient Care Through Telehealth: Pain Management and Opioids, Balancing Risks and Benefits

This series of videos is aimed at helping you engage in successful pain management telehealth visits with your patients. Clinicians may have had little to no training on the communication and clinical skills needed for telehealth patient encounters. Most have never learned how to “see” a patient on video during medical training. Our goal for this education is to help you improve your pain management telehealth visits. We’re going to cover some telehealth tips that will help make you successful and keep your patient engaged.

Learning Objectives


At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss factors to improve your telehealth visits such as your environment, professionalism, and non-verbal communication skills
  • Implement positive communication techniques into practice
  • Collect and assess pain management information during a telehealth visit
  • Develop a safe and effective pain treatment plan with your patient during a telehealth visit
  • Implement motivational interviewing techniques into practice

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