The Importance Of Telehealth Technology

In the United States, a renewed interest occurred in telehealth in the 1990s according to McGonigle and Mastrian because of escalating costs, the need for greater access for all

Telehealth is remote exchange of data between a patient and doctor that facilitate in better diagnosis of patients and monitoring typically used to support patients with long term conditions.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how technology has impacted the health care delivery system. Health care technology is advancing at an increasingly rapid rate in the United States, and globally. Patients and providers are witnessing these changes through the use of telehealth, and telemedicine applications. Telehealth, and telemedicine are often used interchangeably, however there is a difference between the two applications. Telehealth is the use of technology to deliver health care, health information, or health education at a distance (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, n.d.).

monitored by medical professionals. According to McKnight (2012), “Studies indicate patients with telehealth care are noted to have a 25% reduction in the number of inpatient hospital days and a 19% reduction in the rate of hospitalizations” (p. 4).

Many of these barriers exist from lack of essentially knowing the benefits of what the incorporation of telehealth can offer within the aspect of this type of community. At times, there has been a great interest in telehealth surrounding its potential to reduce health care costs along with the improvement of patient outcomes, but at times there has been no known scientific evidence base underpinning it (McLean, Sheikh, Cresswell, Nurmmatov, Mukherjee, Hemmi & Pagilari, 2013).

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.

Telehealth is an all inclusive, systematic approach application of care and case management. The program personalizes the delivery of health care services using health informatics, disease management and health technologies. Telehealth facilitates access to care and improves the health of designated individuals and populations.

Underserved and Low-income populations face high rates of untreated dental diseases due to low access to dental treatment. One of the main causes of this problem is lack of participating dentists or poor distribution of dentists due to transportation problems. Untreated oral diseases are often seen in low-income communities and underserved populations The most common oral diseases that manifest in underserved populations are periodontal diseases and dental caries

During the 1990s, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has used information and communication technologies to provide first-rate, broad primary and specialty services to its veteran population. The VA, Office of Telehealth Services (OTS) offers a program called Care Coordination/Home Telehealth (CCHT) to make tedious for veterans for the growing health issues occurring across the globe, i.e. diabetes, heart failure, PTSD, and a host of others. I think these have become an epidemic in the veteran community, due to the constant overseas deployment in the recent years of conflicts.

Currently, the DVAMC’s telehealth department is fully staffed with ten nursing coordinators that manage a variety of chronic diseases and health promotion topics such as smoking cessation and weight loss. The telemedicine service includes: TeleRetinal, TeleMental Health, TeleDermatology. Furthermore, educating the staff and patients about the department’s services is an established activity delegated to the telehealth coordinators as well as marketing all the service to other medical staff. In addition, the technology as well as the reports to be utilize to measure the outcomes of the project are existing, functioning systems within the facility. Therefore, there will be no additional cost associated with purchasing equipment nor manhours to implement this project.

As discussed earlier, Roja et al. (2014) found that there is minimal effort in developing programs for the Aboriginal community that are deemed culturally safe and appropriate care provided by health care professionals. With current advancements in technology, remote Aboriginal communities can now utilize a videoconferencing service where a physician can attend to them via Telehealth. According to Kowpak & Gillis (2015), this method uses a robot that has ‘peripheral examination tools such as a stethoscope, ENT camera, and a general exam camera’. Although this method paves way to a much acceptable timeframe to consult with a physician, Telehealth also has its fair share of criticisms (Health Canada, 2014). Telehealth is another form of service

Currently, our Kirkland based clinic works with 40 children on an average week. Our Bellingham location only sees 20 children. We have the ability to reach out to far more clients and provide them even more assistance then we ever thought were capable. Telehealth is an up and coming new wave of both technology and healthcare. The basic foundational idea of telehealth is that the therapist has the ability to treat the client via electronic means such as iPad, webcams and phones. It opens the door for patients to overcome barriers and receive the proper healthcare that they need and may have missed out on thus far. Washington is in the forefront of bringing this form of healthcare to the surface by passing bill #6519. I have included the link for this bill so that you may look into more information and history of the bill if you wish. As you can see, this bill showcases that we are legally able to provide this service as long as we are providing treatment to those that are in the state of which we are licensed.

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

In this field trip, I am trying to find out the latest development of Information Technology and how these technologies affect our daily lives. Get to know about these technologies, how is it going to improve our lives in the further. This exhibition is about the next generation nationwide broadband network (Next Gen NBN). We get to learnt how Next Gen NBN improved Information Technology, as it offers broadband speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. With such high speed, more informations can be transferred in one second. This exhibition tell us about how Next Gen NBN improve our lives, work, Interaction and learning. In this essay I am going to discuss three technologies which I think

I took the “Pretest Toward Computers in Healthcare (PATCH) Assessment Scale, version 3,” (Kaminski, J.). I scored 92.0, a reasonably good score, but I would have projected a higher score because of my background in Tele-Medicine. I have spent the last 10 years in Tele-Medicine, so it would be a safe assumption that I am computer and/or technology savvy and fluent with multiple platforms. That holds true to a point, but the fact that technology is constantly evolving keeps us all somewhat behind the bubble since computer science is not our primary focus. Nursing informatics will remain a fluid environment, as each nurse becomes more comfortable with technology, each will be able to incorporate innovative