The use of telecommunication using electronic devices from cell phones to videoconferencing among healthcare providers; either to exchange reports, concerns or researches about clients has become very common in the past few years. Even more so that it now branches out to a broader range of technology known as Telehealth. Telehealth allow physicians to provide care and monitor their clients while at a distant location, using the latest technologies. According to the Center for Connected Health Policy, telehealth is described as a collection of methods for improving health care, public health, and the support of health education delivery using telecommunication technologies. The same article continues to elaborate on the four distinct applications
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To maintain and improve health, telehealth and medical information join forces to address and manage diabetes even when clients are at their homes. The approach is to provide a broad spectrum of methods to both clinicians and clients such as counseling, nurse call centers, nutritional support thru videoconferencing, educational websites, and devices like digital glucometers. Hence, the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Project was born. This project was the largest telemedicine effort ever funded by the Federal government (Kevin D. Blanchet, 2008). A home telemedicine unit (HTU) designed by the American Telecare was put to use and has four major …show more content…
This application among many others can make difference diabetes and some complications associated with it, obesity and high blood pressure. In conclusion, the future for health improvement is looking promising. Telehealth has shifted the gear and stirred a range of new activities when it comes to telecommunication. Coming up with new technologies and being able to afford them and put them to services is still on ongoing challenge. Vendors are well are of this problem, costs of devices and software are been either reconsidered or dropping. Support software, user friendly and availability too many applications has been blooming for all stakeholders involved; like physicians, nurses, specialists, third party insurances and patients. Technology supporting telemedicine and the developing National Information Infrastructure (NII) is making new technologies more commonplace and more easily used (Marilyn J. Field,
To maintain and improve health, telehealth and medical information join forces to address and manage diabetes even when clients are at their homes. The approach is to provide a broad spectrum of methods to both clinicians and clients such as counseling, nurse call centers, nutritional support thru videoconferencing, educational websites, and devices like digital glucometers. Hence, the Informatics for Diabetes Education and Telemedicine (IDEATel) Project was born. This project was the largest telemedicine effort ever funded by the Federal government (Kevin D. Blanchet, 2008). A home telemedicine unit (HTU) designed by the American Telecare was put to use and has four major …show more content…
This application among many others can make difference diabetes and some complications associated with it, obesity and high blood pressure. In conclusion, the future for health improvement is looking promising. Telehealth has shifted the gear and stirred a range of new activities when it comes to telecommunication. Coming up with new technologies and being able to afford them and put them to services is still on ongoing challenge. Vendors are well are of this problem, costs of devices and software are been either reconsidered or dropping. Support software, user friendly and availability too many applications has been blooming for all stakeholders involved; like physicians, nurses, specialists, third party insurances and patients. Technology supporting telemedicine and the developing National Information Infrastructure (NII) is making new technologies more commonplace and more easily used (Marilyn J. Field,