According to Hebda (2013), “is the use of telecommunications technologies and electronic information to exchange healthcare information and to provide and support services such as long-distance clinical healthcare to clients” (p. 505). This type of technology could truly benefit those that are healthcare professionals take better care of their clients. Especially, those that lack access to the care they need for those in rural or disadvantage groups, maldistribution of specialist services, and to those that need a straight-forward method of delivering care to homes in the aging population with chronic diseases (Wade, 2014, p. 1). Telehealth delivers its tools in a unique way that we basically know how to do it already with the technology we use from
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Theresa’s, emergency department it is my job that my client gets the care that he/she needs quickly. In order for me to do that I have to use the Telehealth links with the hospital that is a 1-hour drive away in order to get in contact with the psychiatrist that is located there in their emergency department. The steps I would take to initiate a productive teleconference would be to first off to formulate a successful plan, before heading towards the issue of the problem straight-on. As Wade (2014) states, in order for telehealth to become successful, while in use is know the difference between the enablers and the barriers (p.2). As for our enablers, “well-functioning technology, user training, planned change with provider participation, development of protocols, acceptance by health care providers, support for provider collaboration, use of business model, and supporting policy and legislation.Then with our barriers we must take care of “technical problems, lack of technical support, lack of usability, provider concerns about the quality and ethico-legal matters, absence of protocols, lack of a business model, and regulatory barriers in licensing and standards” (Wade, 2014, p.
Theresa’s, emergency department it is my job that my client gets the care that he/she needs quickly. In order for me to do that I have to use the Telehealth links with the hospital that is a 1-hour drive away in order to get in contact with the psychiatrist that is located there in their emergency department. The steps I would take to initiate a productive teleconference would be to first off to formulate a successful plan, before heading towards the issue of the problem straight-on. As Wade (2014) states, in order for telehealth to become successful, while in use is know the difference between the enablers and the barriers (p.2). As for our enablers, “well-functioning technology, user training, planned change with provider participation, development of protocols, acceptance by health care providers, support for provider collaboration, use of business model, and supporting policy and legislation.Then with our barriers we must take care of “technical problems, lack of technical support, lack of usability, provider concerns about the quality and ethico-legal matters, absence of protocols, lack of a business model, and regulatory barriers in licensing and standards” (Wade, 2014, p.