Comparison of Project Operation Village Health and Project Tanzania

The Telehealth services will include the use of technology to deliver telemedicine. The budget will fund the hospital with videoconferencing software, computers, webcams, and trained employees to set up and document the process. The equipment will allow physicians or patients to consult virtually with other physicians and specialists. Instead of missing a day of work or school and commuting hours for an appointment with a specialist, patients will be able to visit their local hospital and consult with the specialist via technology. Consultations, examinations, and monitoring are services that can easily be provided through

Access to applicable health services is often limited for people living in remote areas and for those with restricted mobility. One of the innovative implementation for a sustainable health care system in minimizing this inequality in access is Telehealth services (Bywood, P et.al, 2013). The aim of this study is to analyze the possible challenges encountered during the provision of using advanced telecommunication systems in the health care system.

Telemedicine has provided better access to health care to many individuals that would otherwise not be able to get required health care services. Telehealth is a means to improve access to care, while reducing costs of transportation and increasing accessibility to patients in obtaining care. Telemedicine allows for healthcare information to be shared with treatment team members that are separated miles from each other with the ability to communicate in a timely manner. For information technology to impact care, one has to be knowledgeable about the use of technology

The delivery of health care has always been influenced by technological developments and innovations. This is particularly true in modern health care professionals where they are obsessed with technology and rush to apply them. One of the most recent applications of ICT – Information and computer technology- is telehealth. Telehealth is the use of communication, diagnostic and information technology to provide health care when patients and providers are geographically separated [2], Technologies include videoconferencing, the internet, store -and-forward imaging, streaming media, terrestrial and wireless communications. Telehealth could be as simple as two health professionals discussing a case over the telephone or as

Telemedicine seeks to improve a patient’s health by permitting a two-way communication between the patient, and the physician or practitioner at the distant site.

According to American Telemedicine Organization, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. The Rural hospital faces unique challenges delivering quality care and access to specialists.

As such, it is a practice embraced in many healthcare centers. Telehealth is crucial especially when geographical barriers are a consideration. In this case, telehealth makes the access to healthcare easier and convenience for patients especially in the rural areas. Teleconferencing reduces the traveling expenses and time used. Besides, it reduces the resources required to provide healthcare. The healthcare providers can make timely, and informed decisions from the reports gathered from the telehealth. One of the main challenges of telehealth and telemedicine is the issue of privacy and security. It is important for the hospital management to establish privacy policies regarding the matter of telehealth. There should be critical monitoring of the programs to ensure that the staff adheres

Cost, quality, and access are three major goals of the health care system. One of the problems to get access is Distance. In the remote areas, access to facility of health is impassible for many people. This video emphasizes on access of the health care. University of Kentucky has created some little rural hospitals with the same university’s standards. They use a virtual network system and high performance by transferring referring physicians in those little hospitals which all patients in rural can do any medical treatments or any tests. Doctors send patient to main hospital, when they need to do something more professional medical treatment and prevent them from doing duplicate tests by recording their medical history. In some areas, they

Often the biggest barriers to accessing healthcare are cost and location. Lower income individuals just do not have the resources to have optimal healthcare, or cannot take the time away from employment to deal with health issues. One potential solution to help with these problems could be “telehealth.” Telehealth allows a lower level healthcare practitioner to communicate with a physician or specialists when necessary. Remote rural areas use a Physician Assistant or a Nurse Practitioner on location in remote areas.

Healthcare adoption is taking more time than anticipated. Barriers have proposed a problem, which simply are becoming the source of implementing this application. Bandwidth, education, leadership and technology, (B.E.L.T.) are the four major components being used when implementing. In the rural, isolated and under served regions, bandwidth becomes a barrier. Changes in the patient, provider approach seems to hinder this implementation as well. Using telehealth seems to to have limited capacity to to address health problems and

Cambodia is still underdeveloped. Cambodia was totally destroyed by the Pol Pot regime, Khmer Rouge, in between 1975 to 1979. Four million people were killed, most educated people, and the entire country was covered by dead bodies and empty houses. People were not allowed to live in their house, and they were not allowed to own any property. In fact, everything they had belonged to the regime, and they were forced to live and work so hard in the rice field without providing enough food. Because that regime had killed so many intelligent people, until today Cambodia is still struggling with human recourse issue. Even the Cambodian top leader, prime minister, is not educated enough. He was the first prime minister after the Pol Pot regime finished

The incorporation of telehealth shows tremendous productivity, because it expands quality services to patients in other regions especially in underservices populations by cutting down on healthcare spending by

In order to uphold to these strategies, Ghana launched many health information projects. Plans such as the Mobile Technology for Community Health in Ghana (MOTECH) and Mobile Teledermatology (Afarikumah, 2014) in Ghana concentrates on the topic of telemedicine. MOTECH focuses on prenatal care with an objective towards increasing quality of care for mothers living in rural areas and Mobile Dermatology looks at dermatology situations in outpatient settings without the use of the Internet (Afarikumah, 2014). With Ghana being a developing country, individuals would have very limited access to health care services because of travel barriers or health costs. Telemedicine projects create the effort and space for those individuals to be able to

Telemedicine is the practice of medicine in relation to clinical care where medical information is transferred through technological means for the purpose of consulting or conducting medical examinations and procedures from two different locations. Technological means can be as uncomplicated as a phone call between two specialists or more complex with the use of satellite technology to enable equipment for video conferencing, transmission of images and monitoring of vital signs. There is a distinction between telemedicine and telehealth, telehealth is a broader term that does not always refer to clinical services but may also include patient portals, continuing medical education, and nursing call centers.

Telemedicine is the use telecommunications and information technology to provide healthcare to patients located in the remote or distant locations. For example: people staying in the mountainous areas or islands can get medical services right at their home with the help of smart devices or patients who cannot go to the hospital for some reason.