Tele Medicine
Rural residents are faced with many barriers when it comes to accessing health care services. These barriers include having to travel long distance to health care facilities, lack of health care professionals willing to work in remote areas, limited number health care facilities available with specialists not willing to work in rural area. These barriers combined with financial constrains result in a higher morbidity and mortality in rural areas. Having access to quality healthcare that is affordable plays a major role for the well-being of a population. Access to health care is important for overall physical, social, and mental health status, quality of life, preventable death and life expectancy. ("Access to Health Services")
To combat some of the barriers of access to health care services in our state, we have to take in to consideration the great size of Virginia and number of population. According to a 2014 estimate Virginia has an estimated population of about 8 million with about 1 million of the population in rural areas. With limited number of hospitals and community health care …show more content…
Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology.” ("What is Telemedicine?") Telemedicine is improving access to healthcare in rural areas by allowing specialists to provide services such as Teleradiology, Telepsychiatry, and Teledermatology just to name a few. A specific example is it’s application in Intensive Care Unit Telemonitoring (e-ICUs). Utilinzing e-ICUs rural healthcare providers can collaborate with tele-hub professionals to assist in monitoring and treating patients and provide an additional monitoring tool besides the nurses“("Telehealth Use in Rural
Rural residents are faced with many barriers when it comes to accessing health care services. These barriers include having to travel long distance to health care facilities, lack of health care professionals willing to work in remote areas, limited number health care facilities available with specialists not willing to work in rural area. These barriers combined with financial constrains result in a higher morbidity and mortality in rural areas. Having access to quality healthcare that is affordable plays a major role for the well-being of a population. Access to health care is important for overall physical, social, and mental health status, quality of life, preventable death and life expectancy. ("Access to Health Services")
To combat some of the barriers of access to health care services in our state, we have to take in to consideration the great size of Virginia and number of population. According to a 2014 estimate Virginia has an estimated population of about 8 million with about 1 million of the population in rural areas. With limited number of hospitals and community health care …show more content…
Telemedicine includes a growing variety of applications and services using two-way video, email, smart phones, wireless tools and other forms of telecommunications technology.” ("What is Telemedicine?") Telemedicine is improving access to healthcare in rural areas by allowing specialists to provide services such as Teleradiology, Telepsychiatry, and Teledermatology just to name a few. A specific example is it’s application in Intensive Care Unit Telemonitoring (e-ICUs). Utilinzing e-ICUs rural healthcare providers can collaborate with tele-hub professionals to assist in monitoring and treating patients and provide an additional monitoring tool besides the nurses“("Telehealth Use in Rural