Telehealth Case Study Essay

Respondents were also surveyed a series of questions to assess their opinions about using Telehealth for consultations. Full results can be found in Table 6, but the most interesting results are noted here. Fifty percent of providers agreed that the quality of care that they delivered is the same when they use Telehealth. Seventy-five percent of providers agree that they are able to see some of their patients sooner or more frequently because of Telehealth. Eighty percent of providers found that Telehealth reduces the amount of time they spend travelling to deliver care. In term of where providers are delivering care with Telehealth, 96.6% of patients do not deliver care outside of Island Health (Table 7). Table 8 reveals the varied responses to whether respondents see an opportunity to use Telehealth in their practice. Of the respondents, 23.5% said yes, 41.2% said no, and 35.3% were undecided. Respondents were asked to explain their answer and full explanations can be found in Appendix I. One example how a respondent could see an opportunity to use Telehealth in their practice is, …show more content…
In regards to whether they would be more likely to start using Telehealth if they could do so from their office answers were somewhat evenly distributed between agree (35.3%), disagree (23.5%), and strongly disagree (29.4%). Pertaining to whether they would be more likely to start using Telehealth if they could connect into their patients’ homes, answers were somewhat evenly distributed amongst agree (37.5%), disagree (25.0%), and strongly disagree (31.2%). Relating to whether they would use Telehealth more often if they could do so from my office, most participants either strongly agreed (33.3%) or agreed (55.6%). All participants agreed that they would use Telehealth more often if they could connect into their patients’ homes. Despite the similarities between questions, participants provided varied