Telemedicine Ethical Dilemmas

To evaluate and study the impact of telemedicine in health, a systematic literature review was conducted. An electronic research through the University of Maryland library was done the articles selected dated from 2000 to 2014. A total of 12 articles was reviewed that dealt with clinical outcomes, efficacy, patient and provider satisfaction. Telemedicine as an emerging field can greatly improve the outcomes of healthcare thus resulting in decrease the delivery cost of healthcare. While the results of the studies are inconclusive on some of the areas, there are some strong supports for patient satisfaction. The literature reviews cost effectiveness, provider satisfaction, patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes.

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.

Improving access to healthcare facilities is only a part of the solution. With the ownership of cell phones becoming increasingly common in Nigeria, we can use these smartphones to empower Nigerians with knowledge on disease symptoms, treatments, and activity. Having knowledge on at hand can help with reducing misconceptions and stigmas of modern healthcare, stay up to date with disease trends or outbreaks, and hopefully prevent people from going to the hospital.

Telemedicine is a vast subject, but as yet there are limited data on the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of most telemedicine applications. As a result, objective information about the benefits and drawbacks of telemedicine is limited. This write up is therefore based mainly on my review opinion referencing the case: “a Telemedicine opportunity of distraction? “of Harvard business. Many potential opportunities of telemedicine including, but not limited to: improved access to information; provision of care not previously deliverable; improved access to services and increasing care delivery; improved professional education; quality control of screening programs; and reduced health-care costs. Although telemedicine clearly has a wide range of potential benefits, it also has some disadvantages. The main ones that can be envisaged are: a breakdown in the relationship between health professional and patient; a breakdown in the relationship between health professionals; issues concerning the quality of health information; and organizational and bureaucratic difficulties. On balance, the benefits of telemedicine are substantial, assuming that more research will reduce or

Physician engagement was identified by surveyed participants as both the most significant enabler to increase telehealth adoption and as greatest potential barrier to be overcome to expand telehealth services. A health care providers’ decision making process to acceptance and embrace new telehealth services is critical to improve physician engagement. Technology acceptance describes a person’s intention or voluntary adoption of a technology and user acceptance is an important factor for successful adoption and utilization of a technology. Whitten and Mackert have pointed out that the provider is the most important initial gatekeeper for the deployment of telemedicine so it is critical that program managers and telemedicine advocates develop effective engagement strategies to enable the success of a telemedicine initiative (Whitten & Mackert, 2005).

Presently, telehealth is recognized as the use of remote healthcare that includes non-clinical services, provider trainings, administrative meetings, and continuing medical education in addition to clinical services through different modes of technology over distances (Krupinski, Bernard, 2014). Telehealth, creates an opportunity to increase access and the quality of care to individuals without general means of transportation and individuals in rural communities everywhere around the world. Telehealth in conjunction to advanced practice nursing, also referred to as telenursing, creates an opportunity to make an even greater impact and make the use of telehealth more feasible in many respects. In the same way telehealth can

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Many rural places are prone to have poorer health than people living in urban areas are. More likely to smoke and have less nutritional diets. In addition, various public health problems such as obesity, tobacco usages tend to focus in rural areas. Despite the higher health problems, doctors are scare. Telemedicine is definitely one of the most innovative solutions that will help patients to easily obtain specialty medical services (Eccles, 2012).

Telemedicine still facing barriers in many states as outdated laws prevent providers from trying to provide coverage to patient in more rural areas. Many experts say those barriers to care are slowly disappearing as more states pass laws to allow Medicaid to reimburse providers (Desjardins, 2014). Providers and health care insurance companies are trying to launch programs to aid rural patients in their health maintenance and disease management. The Center for Connected Health helps promote the use of telemedicine in the U.S. and advance legislation that makes it easier for payers and providers to take part in programs; those efforts hinge in large part on what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decides to invest in (Desjardins,

Telemedicine is an emerging technology that with increasing internet speeds and the widespread usage of satellite broadband will serve our population at a reduced cost. Telemedicine that is already in use in the Golden Triangle will allow Physicians to see their patients, allow nurses to perform assessments, and medications to be prescribed. Telemedicine will also allow Doctors to assist the APRN with difficult diagnoses and create advanced treatment plans. While using this technology in these remote clinics would improve our underserved population access it does nothing to make them use the clinics.

Now, we know about the benefits, the barrier or challenges of Telehealth or Telemedicine when we use the system. So, the conclusion is Telehealth or Telemedicine is quality of health care system. Telehealth or Telemedicine is about system that we want to use it for a long time. It is quite good when we have our own system to increase the amount of patient to use the system of Telehealth or Telemedicine. Other than that, when we create the system make sure that the systems follow the procedure or legislation of that particular method. Furthermore, HealthCare Organization must take action to maintain this system for future use. The system of Telehealth or Telemedicine is easier system that can use by the other patient at there. They must make

In any healthcare setting, care is provided through Interdisciplinary care teams, which has not been without its concerns in terms of tele-homecare. Health care professionals involved in tele-homecare delivery were problematic at times, because clinical roles and responsibilities as well as responses to abnormal tele-homecare data and expectations about patient outcomes were not delineated. Collaborations between nurses and physicians within telemedicine programs however were reportedly collaborative and trustworthy. A common frustration for providers within the context of interdisciplinary care, is the inoperability of different telemedicine agencies operating systems to communicate data and information between each other, especially when

It would make a significant impact to our community if some our sister facilities implemented Telehealth. Telehealth is a range of health services that are delivered by communication tools such as telephone, computers, and videophones (Blais & Hayes, 2016 pg. 300). Some of the hospitals in our network are in rural areas. There are many factors that affect our rural areas such as, educational inadequacies, economic factors, social differences, and isolation

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication technology to provide medical information and services. The World Health Organization describes Telemedicine as, “the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor, by all health care professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of health care providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities” (Telemedicine, 2010). “Telemedicine, in its modern form, started in the 1960s … driven by the military and space technology sectors, as well as a few individuals using readily available commercial equipment” (Telemedicine, 2010). The purpose of telemedicine is to provide support, overcome barriers and the goal is to improve health care results (Telemedicine, 2010).

This article was chosen from Google scholar and the general topic of infrastructure functionality and applications of the telemedicine in the remote geographical area of Gansu province, China, including challenges of implementing the system from both a patient and physician perspective. The author’s statements are based on qualitative research from patient participants as well as data from the Chinese Jinwei Network Engineer (National Health Information System). The conclusions reached discuss the current problems in need of attention in order to promote telemedicine in impoverished regions and the gaps in current usability, as well as the benefits of using advancing technology to connect with patients who do not have