Telemedicine : The Greatest Concerns Facing The Telemedicine Community

The importance of value based care in 2016 cannot be overlooked. The entire healthcare industry is now shifting towards providing quality healthcare which not only results in generation of additional revenue, but also cuts costs, and enhances patient satisfaction. With the rapid transitioning that is happening across the industry, telemedicine is experiencing its own growth spurt.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed by congress in 1996, and helps to ensure the privacy and security of Electronic Health Records (EHR's). By following the rules and regulations set forth under HIPAA, we can ensure the safety of patients' EHR's. We are responsible for protecting patients' records, and there are many measures we can take in order do this. Firstly, we must always keep patients' health information private. This means no discussing the records with people that are not authorized to know, and even then, we should only disclose the minimum necessary amount of information possible. For covered entities, we must designate a privacy and security officer to ensure the privacy

In this context telemedicine and technological capability can respond to two major strands: the first is a simplification to ensure that with available technologies, all actors of a clinical path from taking care to resign, share real-time Useful information for themselves and for other professionals in order to identify and follow the best path. The second strand is the provision on the territory of technological capacities that are very developed in a hospital environment but whose deployment is quite circumscribed.

In this discussion, it is indispensable to review issues concerning telehealth, ethical issues and nursing relevance, and implications for nursing in an effort to renew healthcare as a whole.

Confidentiality is considered a core value or principal in the medical practice. Confidentiality is a right that all people have within the medical field. This is the requirement of health care providers to keep a person’s information exclusive unless the patient or the person consents in the form of a release to share that information with other people that practice. Usually the consent is given when a doctor wants to consult with a different doctor for example. In this case it would be for the betterment of the person.

HIPPA is a rule that helps protects a patient’s privacy when it comes to their health or medical information. It is also known as a security rule that helps in protecting electronic health information as well. As in the health care patient safety and confidentiality is an important rule to follow at all times. A standard of HIPPA is privacy. When it comes to privacy it is meant by protecting a patient’s medical information in any form needs to be controlled at all times. It is a rule that is balanced and used to protect the disclosure of the patient’s health information that is needed for patient care and treatment. It is important that any person working in the health care setting is aware of this rule as it is important to follow when

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).

Although the telehealth seems to have the advantage of maximizing effectiveness and efficiency at the lowest possible cost when properly planned and executed; there are serious ethical and legal problems that should be solved prior to its implementation. Telehealth, as in other health related technological developments is a subject of ongoing debate.

When using Telemedicine humans can accomplish many great things and can benefit everyone. The potential this innovation has could be really great if they succeed on making it right. If this Innovation worked many lives will be saved across the world. As well as lives we might be able to learn new things from this and find more cures. According to professionals at the medical field telemedicine has been approving for the past couple years and as potential to keep going. Not only is this innovation good at saving lives it is also helping the economy by getting rid of competition. Even though some people see competition in the economy a good thing but it also has its downs that can really help some

The article that I found that was relevant to the lecture was on using telemedicine with decision support. It talks about how telemedicine can assist in patient consultations to improve quality, efficiency, and how patients are involved in the decision making process. Like u-Health, telemedicine using telecommunications to talk with patients or health professionals not in the same location. It is relevant to the lecture as it discusses telemedicine to manage chronic diseases much like u-Health that was discuss in lecture 2-2. Overall, this article found that the co-production of healthcare provided by the telemedicine provided care that was holistic, comprehensive, and empowering for the patient. This improved the care that they were receiving

Telemedicine is becoming increasingly popular. The technology is moving so fast that it is arising ethical and legal issues.

Telemedicine: is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communication for the health and education of the patient or healthcare provider and for improving patient care , treatment, and services (Nelson & Staggers, 2017).

There are so many hours in a day. The Federal Government wants to expand Healthcare to more and more U.S. citizens at the same time it also wants to reduce the amount of money provided to the Medical professionals for services rendered. The Government has created a telephone book size manual that deals with everything from patient care to doctor reimbursement for the care. It makes doctors into robots and patients into pawns. Telemedicine seeks to improve the lives of patients and of medical professionals alike. By removing most of the barriers, between patient and doctor such as distance, charts, and x-rays as well as medical history and billing, now even on the remotest areas on the planet a mobile phone can connect you to life saving medical help thousands of miles away.

While many telemedicine modalities have gained widespread acceptance in the human medical field, its use is merely in its infancy in the veterinary medical field (Devi et al 2015 p. 153). However, Ailena M. Baum, a doctor of veterinary medicine (DVM), states that she has seen a rapid increase in the use of telemedicine in the veterinary field (personal communication, June 20, 2016). Doctor Baum further states that she believes this trend is driven by a need for cost savings, along with a need for increased access to board certified veterinary experts (personal communication, June 20, 2016). Certainly, increased access and cost savings would be a positive development in the veterinary medical field.

Telenursing could have some ethical issues that need to be addressed at an early stage. The nurse should be able to use the machine so that communication with the patient and treatment would be easy. The nurse should also master the skills of a good listener, communicator and observer because she solemnly depends on these skills in judging the health status of the patient. The nurse should also show caring and concern to boost the self-worth of the patient. She should also be courageous and patient with the sick to ensure that the best services are delivered. The nurses could experience some dilemmas in deciding the best advice to give leading to stress. During such moments, the nurse should relax and give the best advice they can think of.