Telemedicine

doctor from the comfort of their living room, or even monitor chronic conditions from home (Butcher, 2015). This new development is referred to as telemedicine or e-health. Telehealth and/or telemedicine can be as simple as an electronic chart or as advanced as a patient’s vital signs being taken at home and sent to their doctor (Kamei, 2013). Telemedicine covers a wide spectrum of patient care and is rapidly becoming a common practice. While there are hesitancies among some care providers,…

Product Overview Telemedicine is a combination of network technology and medical technology, which generally includes several major parts as: remote diagnosis, expert consultation, information service, online examination and remote communication. Based on computer and network communication, it realizes the transmission, storage, query, comparison, display and sharing of medical data, remote video and audio information. Customer Demand The Africa sees 25% of the diseases in the world, but the…

The World Health Organization has accepted the following wide depiction of telemedicine and explained it as: “The delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and…

Telemedicine is an advancing development from the expanding field of health information technology (HIT). The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines HIT as the interchanging of health information by electronic means (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/healthit/, "Health Information Technology"). Telemedicine is similar to HIT except it relates more to the delivery of health services by electronic remote means. The benefits that both can bring to our health…

After doing some research I think telemedicine is actually pretty cool. I found an article online that talks about how patients availability side of treatment is most commonly affected by travel and mobility and telemedince makes it easier for patients and physicians to communicate in a timely manner. In a review from a patient it is mentioned how convenient and cost effective it was for her to have virtual face time with her doctor. Technology is always advancing and telemedinice with only…

Whitten, Buis & Love (2007) described Telemedicine as the delivery of healthcare over a distance through the use of telecommunication technologies. Gartee (2010) states that telemedicine can take many forms ranging from a simple phone call between individuals to a videoconference. One clinical application of telemedicine is e-visits. The internet and secure servers create opportunities for e-visits, in which physicians and patients interact virtually instead of face-to-face. In e-visits,…

telecommunications and new technologies to improve the health care. After a lot of work the telemedicine implemented and become an important solution for health care consultations. Telemedicine is defined as a technology that support and provide health care through long distances by using the electronic information and communications technologies. Also, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) declared the telemedicine as "the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via…

organization. ATA defines telemedicine as, "the delivery of medical care with telecommunications technology, to improve the quality, equity and affordability of healthcare" ("About ATA-ATA Main," 2016). ATA was established in 1993, and is based in Washington, DC. ATA promotes telemedicine by providing, educational opportunities, networking, resources, and research to over 10,000 members. ATA develops policies and standards for telemedicine (About ATA, 2016). Telemedicine was originally…

Objective 1: Specific telemedicine software will be selected, and implemented based on the needs of the community and health care system. Needs will be assessed through surveys from patients, providers and members of the healthcare team, one year before implementation of telemedicine. Rationale Informatics strategies -Surveys will be created to be compatible with desktop, tablet-type computer platforms, and hand-held devices. -Surveys will also be mailed to people in the community as many…

pool of elderly population in the country that has continuous healthcare needs. This pool will continue to expand as the baby boomer population starts to age and retire. There are multiple avenues if healthcare organizations (HCOs) start to employ telemedicine services to assist the aging population. There are smart devices such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can be utilized to remotely monitor patient vitals. And these devices can communicate with patient charts and the clinical staff…