Telemedicine : The Medical Field

Qualitative reports on 12 peer reviewed articles were researched through the University of Maryland to get information on the cost effectiveness, clinical efficacy, individual and provider satisfaction. The 12 articles printed dates ranged from 200 and 2014. The articles represented articles that have been published on the topic of telemedicine subject in various areas. The review articles began with searching the database looking for articles on telemedicine and found a possible 100 articles on the topic and were narrowed down to just a few dozen that fit the standards the matter was searching for.

“Telehealth changes the location of care by connecting patients and clinicians virtually, in place of the usual face-to-face contact.” (Darkins 2012).

Telehealth is one of the major types of Health Care Information Systems (HCIS) that enables providers to connect with patients and consulting practitioners across remote areas to support patient and clinician education, diagnosis and treatment, chronic disease management and monitoring, and provider-to-provider interactions (Grube, Kaufman, Clarin, & O’Riordan, 2016, p.43). Telehealth is not a new idea. It initially started in 1950’s and 1960’s when the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute started the closed-circuit TV to monitor patients in rural areas where health care is not easily accessible (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2015). The development of internet and broadband and

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

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

In correctional care facilities, one of the last things management wants to do is transport a patient outside the security and confines of the facility to see medical personnel. Telemedicine allows prison officials to provide high quality health care to inmates without the inherent risk of bringing a specialist into the dangerous prison environment or transporting the inmate outside the secure facility.

Telemedicine refers to the use of medical information, which is exchanged from one place to another through several electronic communications to improve the health status of patients. Telehealth is closely associated with the term telemedicine. Telehealth encompasses a broader definition of the remote healthcare, which does not necessarily involve any clinical services. As such, transmission of images, video conferencing, medical education, e-health such as patient portals and nursing centers are all part of telehealth and telemedicine. Telehealth and telemedicine are critical issues within the healthcare sector for both the practitioners and the consumers. With the increase in telecommunications development, the internet, and lowered costs of technology, the use of telehealth and telemedicine may have a revolutionary and profound impacts in the field of medical care worldwide. Telemedicine is imperative to healthcare professionals because it is cost efficient, improves access to health care and the increased convenience for

In today’s time, the Internet is really altering the way us Americans intermingle with the healthcare system. The Internet is making consumers more desirable to use it, in hopes for more opportunities. With the help from the Internet, telemedicine is becoming one of the best cultivating advanced technology in healthcare right now. Telemedicine can be defined as the use of medical information that is exchanged from one site to another (americantelemed, 2012). This process utilizes technology and digital communication in order to help patients’ progress. Important aspects of telecommunication include video, email, mobile devices, and more. So, in a nutshell telemedicine allows patients to communicate with their assigned physician about any

Innovations in technology can have a direct impact on our collective way of life. Indeed, the most compelling of technology innovations are those that can be used to improve the quality of human life. This is especially the case in fields such as healthcare and medicine. Fundamental to the functionality of modern society and yet plagued by critical needs and problematic realities, these are areas in which emerging technologies already coming into market readiness may be pushed into practice by virtue of their paired economic viability and social responsibility. So is this the case with telecommunications in healthcare, an area in which we are gradually verging on solutions for many of the geographical, physical and financial obstacles that have limited are ability to treat patients. According to Lin, (1999), "telemedicine enables a physician or specialist at one site to deliver health care, diagnose patients, give intra-operative assistance, provide therapy, or consult with another physician or paramedical personnel at a remote site. Thus, the aim of telemedicine is to provide expert-based health care to understaffed remote sites and to provide advanced emergency care through modern telecommunication and information technologies." (p. 28) Especially in hospital settings, these technologies have the capacity to reduce the expenditure of resource and labor during the treatment process. These features make the

Improvements in communication with professionals at a distance and with patients would allow for tele-monitoring and other forms of telemedicine.

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.

Telehealth technology also plays a significant role in time and cost saving (Mofat& Ely 2010). Through the technological applications, nurses are in a position to communicate and monitor their outpatients without the need to travel (Nagel et al., 2015). Also, through applications such as teleconferencing, health specialists such as cardiologists are now in a position to train the interns in the field without the need to travel to his/her theater (Tuerk & Shore, 2014).

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

Caleb Frankel is an ER Veterinarian, an entrepreneur, author and website founder with special interests in technology use in medicine. He is also a Critical Care Veterinarian at the Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center in Greater Philadelphia, PA. At the beginning, Caleb tells that he is on a mission to convince people that “every veterinary team member should be encouraged to use his or her smartphone— and have unrestricted Internet access—at work. According to the author, this article is written for practice owners and managers; therefore, he has tried to convince these owners and managers to encourage their employees

Teladoc, MDLIVE and Doctors on Demand, apps which allow users to videoconference with a board-certified physician, have together accumulated more than $120 million in funding.