Telemedicine

Telemedicine can be defined as an electronic medical data transfer (images, sounds, videos, high-definition patient records) from one place to another, in order to improve patient care. Telemedicine is a rapid growth in clinical medicine where medical information is transported via audio and visual interactive media for the purpose of counseling field…

age. The continued advances in medical technology, even beyond data and analytics, can help employers enhance their healthcare benefits. Employers and employees are increasingly seeing telemedicine as an added benefit, with nearly a quarter of employers offering the option. Gallagher predicts access to telemedicine will reach 42% by…

Promise for Allowing Older Adults to Age in Place? telemedicine is an innovative technology that allows in-depth diagnosis to patients from experts anywhere. It can monitor blood pressure, weight, blood sugar levels and other pertinent information. With these new accesses health crises can be prevented ahead of time (Marchibroda, 2015). As reported by the article ?The Past, Present, and Future of Telemedicine for Parkinson?s Disease? telemedicine is considered a healing from a distance technique…

with is that it will be more convenient through video, web chat, or phone. Workers are allowed to follow up on a prescription with a physician they have been working with for many years. Cost efficiency medical doctors are changing less for a telemedicine consultation than they would for an in person visit. Payers experience reduced cost when specialist are used more often to address patient conditions meaning that if the patient has direct contact with the right specialist this can eliminate…

The differences between the biomedical and biopsychosocial models can be observed by the way they approach the patients. Biomedical model is “based on the premise that ill health is a physical phenomenon that can be explained, identified, and treated through physical means.” (13), this model is more linear in a way that it only isolate the main variables through scientific method to find what caused the illness. On the other hand, the Biopsychosocial model does not only look into the biological…

service. Technology is entrenched in all specialties and departments in health care. In a study conducted by Mobasheri, Johnston, Syed, King, and Darzi (2015), in the use of tablets and smartphones in various domains of surgery like diagnostics, telemedicine, operative navigation, training, data collection, patient…

The technological advance that is moving us towards a more globalized society, is computers. Computers have had a significant impact on globalizing the world. There are many benefits of computers such as communication and helping improve medical science. At the same time, there are many potential negative impacts such as cyber theft and loss of jobs. Overall, I believe the positives of computers far outweigh the negative impacts of computers. First of all, computers have had a huge…

Caring for a cerebrovascular accident in Augusta Georgia. Augusta is known for its many hospitals, so well-known that when I was younger there was talk of changing Augusta’s nickname from the garden city of the south to the hospital city of the south. This did not happen, however the area does have four major hospitals, and two major military facilities. The large number of medical facilities with varying means of funding allows people to receive care to find quality care regardless of their…

Science will always have a place in society no matter how far into the future we look. It is a key element of new knowledge, new discoveries, and new technologies. We live in a world that does not simply hand us all the answers. There is no ‘’cheat sheet’’ for the secrets of life. This lack of omniscience opens the door for numerous “what ifs”, “whys” and “hows” about the universe and our existence. Ergo, there will always be a need for science to help us to understand how things work.…

been faced by the modern world nowadays. MHealth is, by nature, can range from the use of normal mobile devices to collect data to the delivery of information to frontline workers and patients, to real time or remote monitoring of patients and telemedicine.…