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A key element used to drive the nursing practice forward is the ability to adapt and incorporate new ideas and technologies with an open mind, and the use of a scientific approach. According to (HRSA, 2015) telehealth is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Technologies include video conferencing, the internet, store-and-forward imaging, streaming media, and terrestrial and wireless communications. When conducting research into what types of telehealth operations will be successful and beneficial one must look into certain areas of telehealth such as; right equipment …show more content…

Currently the biggest areas being telehealth for the elderly are diabetic control, heart monitoring, and standard daily vitals. The most interesting piece of equipment used to monitor these is the Healthstats watch (Bartz, 2014). The Healthstats watch monitors pulse, heart rate, O2, sleeping statistics, and patient activity. The only issue that most manufacturers have come across is monitoring blood pressure with a watch because of how much power it consumes. A huge leap forward in this tech though is what Healthstats has been working on. Healthstats has created a new blood pressure watch which uses a newly devised algorithm to record blood pressure. The way it works is you sync the watch to their blood pressure machine. You take a couple blood pressure readings with a normal cuff and the data syncs to the watch. What happens next is pretty amazing, the watch now uses the shape of the pressure waves that run to the wrists and determines your blood pressure. This technology seamlessly syncs with the other functions of the watch prior and still can run off a 5 day battery life. Armed with a computer, a health watch, and a video camera the beginnings of setting up a telehealth in your home or remote area seem incredibly easy and cost efficient. Currently many fields are attempting to incorporate the use of specialized equipment in order to use telehealth to

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