The Importance Of Technology Save Lives

There are real benefits for both the patient and the clinician. The individual patient has more control and understanding of their long term health condition, and the clinicians utilising telehealth as part of a care pathway can ensure that they are proactively involved in the ongoing wellbeing of their patient, managing timely interventions and helping to improve their patient's quality of life.

In some specialties, particularly in mental health and ICU care, telemedicine delivers a superior product, with greater outcomes and patient satisfaction. Consumers want telemedicine. The greatest impact of telemedicine is on the patient, their family and their community. Using telemedicine technologies reduces travel time and related stresses for the patient.

I have no personal experience with telehealth, but I have witness a few promotional videos over the recent years. As technology continues to grow within the healthcare system, it will allow us to provide better care whether we are face-to-face or miles apart. Telehealth is can be beneficial to not only the healthcare workers but always the patient. Telehealth allows the healthcare system to ensure continuity of care and also evaluate patient compliance to the plan of care. Since technology is so prominent in todays society, telehealth allows the patients to have quick and easy way to contact their provider via email, blog, or videochat.

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

Another benefit of telemedicine would be cost efficiencies. One of the main reasons why adopting and funding telehealth technologies/equipment was so important was to reduce and contain the cost of healthcare. Increased efficiency of improved management on chronic diseases, reduced travel times, shorter or fewer hospital stays, and shared health professional staffing has proven that telemedicine has reduced the cost of healthcare (americantelemed, 2012).

The increased use of Telehealth technology tools are not viewed as dehumanizing patient care, but should be seen as increasing the contact between a patient and a provider. Telehealth technology one ways to be connected with healthcare providers from mid-level nurse to a specialist doctor. Health care providers can care for patients and provide their services hundreds or even miles away from their workplace. Specialists can be reduced travel and health care utilization.

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

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

Advantages: With Telehealth, people are able to have consultation with their health care provider at home/office. This is convenience for those patients with physical disability or elderlies. This also makes their family member’s life easier as they do not need to take an off in order to bring the patient to hospital. It is cheaper to have consultation with doctors through Telehealth compare to visit the doctor personally. This would also reduce travel expenses. Telehealth helps to save time as patients do not need to spent time on traveling and waiting for their turn to have consultation.

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).

One of the main advantages is increased access to healthcare. Telemedicine can help to overcome the access barrier that exists in rural America. Patients can have access to care providers through phone consultations, emails, mobile applications, live video appointments and even text messages. They no longer have to worry about taking time off from work, and traveling to their doctor’s office because now “they can go online in the comfort of their home, and complete a virtual consultation with a physician, and in less than an hour, a physician can provide a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment plan” (Sahdev 1813). People who live in rural and underserved communities can now more easily connect with health professionals without traveling unreasonable

Watching the video of telemedicine truly opened my eyes to the new stages and advances of technology and medicine. This is the first time I have heard of telemedicine I think this is a great step moving forward in the healthcare field. I used the textbook to find and understand the meaning of telemedicine “remote consultation by patients with physicians or other health professionals via telephone, closed-circuit television, or the Internet” (Judson, 2016). With telemedicine, it can improve health, reduce cost, and access to care in rural and urban areas. The only downside to telemedicine is the common issue with technology, such as downtime, power shortages or power outages.

Technology changed the delivery of nursing care in a few different ways. First, a patient’s condition can change at anytime which means the plan or care will change as well. Treatment needs to be changed or certain things need to be discontinues such as IV fluids or medications. With the physicians being able to access the patients chair via computer or cell phone can allow for the nurse to follow through with these changes immediately. The advantages to this technology is simple, better patient care and better patient

As a conclusion, telemedicine will continue to be a dynamic influence within the profession of medicine. Overall, the benefits of this innovation will be in two primary areas which are medical benefits and cost benefits. First, as we know, telemedicine is a logical extension of the growth of the technological and technical aspects of health care. The medical benefits of an active telemedicine program are related to how professionals use the technology. A modification of a famous analogy used in educational research when applied to telemedicine summarizes the medical impact of telemedicine (“University of Utah Health Care | Salt Lake City, Utah,” n.d.).

There are several forms of technology that is used to monitor, assist patients with self-care management, assist physicians with delivering care to their patients, including consultation with specialist, and overcoming barriers with transportation. “60% of the healthcare executives, physicians, and nurses in this inaugural survey said that telemedicine was a high priority for 2015“ (Vockley, 2015, para. 7) Telemedicine