Medical informatics

start to feel like they are inhuman objects when they are seeing the medical provider through the technology instead of in person. Patients may miss the personal connection with the physician and may feel a sense of insecurity and lack of trust using the telehealth technology. This feeling of dehumanization may lead to unhappy patients that will in turn lead to an unsuccessful medical practice (Barwa, Bhute, & Rani, 2014). Medical providers do not want to adopt telehealth without the acceptance…

Telehealth Telehealth is a collection of means or methods to enhance all aspects of healthcare through support using telecommunications technologies. Telehealth uses electronic information to support and promote long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional videoconferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and wireless communications. The use of telehealth brings with it some benefits such as provider flexibility, patient satisfaction, and staff…

“The use of medical information exchanged from one site to another through the use of two-way video, email, smartphones and other forms of telecommunication technology,” was what was stated by the American Telemedicine Association. The use of telehealth has been significantly increased over the years due to the fact of its excessive and fascinating advertising therefore the issue now, is how effective and productive is Telehealth when it comes to prescribing medications? The overall…

ongoing and evolving problem in healthcare. According to the US Census Bureau, US Department of Health and Human Services, “143 million patients’ records have been compromised over the past five years…” (Zeadally, Isaac, & Baig, 2016). A patient’s medical record information is a highly sought after commodity among hackers, cyber criminals, and identity thieves because it contains “personal, insurance, and financial information”. They are able to sell this information for “up to $251 per record”…

collect data from your provider’s office; it is also a way to have a complete history of the patient. Electronic health records were made to share your personal information between your doctors. An electronic medical record (EMR) is an electronic capture of your chart, which contains all of your medical history that is from your primary care physician. An electronic health record is commonly used by providers for diagnosis and treatment. Here lies the problem that I would like to bring to your…

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009 was established to promote electronic medical record (EMR) adoption and electronic health information exchange. Furthermore, incentives and penalties were fixed to invoke health organizations to install EMR programs and achieve meaningful use standards set forth by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Overall, the HITECH Act and Meaningful use standards were created to improve quality of…

in the medical device industry, my colleagues and I have always faced these four questions: Will this treatment work? How will it be adopted by physicians and patients? How much does it really cost? Will insurance cover it? I have devoted my professional life to developing and marketing new healthcare technologies, helping to make a positive impact on literally millions of patients’ lives. When I first entered the industry, the path to answering these four questions for any new medical device…

technology have made it possible for patients in urban and rural communities to gain access to critical health services. Telemedicine includes remote diagnosis of patients through telecommunications technology. Telemedicine involves a variety of medical activities such as teleconsulting and virtual collaboration with multiple physicians, tele-home care, remote diagnosis, and remote surgery (Hansen 2006). The benefits of telemedicine are improved access, cost efficiency, and patient demand.…

Island Health Telehealth services connect patients with their out of town providers via video conferencing. The Island Health Telehealth team uses surveys and statistics to closely monitor the usage of Telehealth services throughout its jurisdiction. Through the weekly room utilization statistics for Campbell River and Nanaimo, it is clear that Telehealth in these locations is not being used to its maximum potential. This triggered the research question, “What do Island Health programs and…

The medical establishment continues to attempt to reduce the nearly100,000 patient lives lost unnecessarily, annually since the IOM surveillance began reporting this as a problem in 1999 (IOM, 2010). Nursing is attempting to help solve this problem of untimely deaths. In order to do this, Dr. Watson encourages us to make more explicit the reality that if nursing is to survive in this millennium, it has to sustain and make explicit its covenant with the public. This covenant includes taking…