Telehealth

Problem Statement The United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are demanding for each nation to focus on innovative services to alleviate the barriers for the disability communities (Kuenburg, Fellinger, & Fellinger, 2015; WHO, 2016; WHO, 2015). In the United States (US) the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHOH) population experience a wide gap in health disparity, which is associated with communication barriers and the lack of health intervention services (Kuenburg et al., 2015;…

produce and generate the demand for telehealth products in the health care market while maximizing profit. With the Exchange, American Well has developed a unique demand that is predicted to increase in the future. According to Tahir (2015), in 2014 about 300 million telehealth consults took place in North America, 37 percent of employer plans offered telehealth as an option for the insured in 2015 and 34 percent more of employer based health plans will include telehealth consults as an health…

mental health clinicians have to evaluate their readiness to use technologies and to consider the appropriateness of the service for a particular client (Barnett & Kolmes, 2016). If professionals successfully addressed mentioned limitations, then telehealth interventions could be effective for the clinical population (Hailey et al., 2008), and practitioners could achieve the therapeutic alliance comparable…

using telecommunications technology, that has the possibility to change the way medical care is provided in the United States (11 Telemedicine Tools Transforming Healthcare, 2012).” The meaning of Telehealth is often associated with telemedicine, but may not always involve clinical services. Telehealth includes many things under its umbrella such as patient education or mobile health application that involves patients engaging into their health care. Telemedicine not a separate specialty in…

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…

Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a slow, progressive disease where the heart weakens and eventually fails to pump blood adequately. Conditions that lead to CHF are previous heart attacks, poorly controlled hypertension, and/or diabetes to name a few. The quality of life and life expectancy for these patients is poor. The life expectancy five years after diagnosis is approximately 50% (Mello & Ashcraft, 2014). 1. Is this a nursing clinical problem? Yes CHF is a…

It also offers “care at a distance” which means any organization in the Epic community are able to use telehealth. “Telehealth allows a physician to examine and treat a patient without either party traveling” (Sayles, 2013). With telehealth, doctors use telephones and videos to care for a patient who is at home or across the world. The weakness of this system is cost; it is expensive to implement an EMR and it does not…

members’ major responsibilities. Then, a new telehealth system will be formulated base on several existing similar systems. The main business needs of this system, also, should be specified and highlighted in order to be advocated in the future. Accordingly, the architecture and interfaces would be designed based upon all the preparation, and the implementation which includes the final construction and test. One of the highlights of this telehealth system is that it is not only able to…

in Intensive Care Unit Telemonitoring (e-ICUs). Utilinzing e-ICUs rural healthcare providers can collaborate with tele-hub professionals to assist in monitoring and treating patients and provide an additional monitoring tool besides the nurses“("Telehealth Use in Rural…

The American Indians and Alaska Natives are racial/ethnic minorities with special needs regarding disparities in accessing health care services. To understand the unique challenges faced by this population, consider that the suicide rate is fifty percent higher than that of the white Americans (Hays, Carroll, Ferguson, Fore, & Horton, 2014). Moreover, the author reported that the rate of substance abuse, mental health issues, and underfunding for health care in their communities are further…