Telemedicine have been the most popular technology over the world. This technology has been used to teleport patient information. This Telecommunication Technology is design to help Physician who are separated from their patient are able to communicate through the system. This paper will focus on Telemedicine history, includes its date of inception, major milestones, and uses in health care. Telemedicine had been used across the United States In addition telemedicine is used to transfer “electronic medical data (i.e. High resolution images, sounds, live video, and patient records) from one location to another” (Telemedicine Today, 1995) These types of technology is used to transfer medical data from one place to another. "telecommunications technology, including telephone lines, ISDN, fractional to full T-1's, ATM, the Internet, intranets, and satellites. Telemedicine is utilized by health providers in a growing number of medical specialties, including, but not limited to: dermatology, oncology, radiology, surgery, cardiology, psychiatry and home health care" (Telemedicine Today, 1995) Telemedicine have being used in home to reduce the cost of health care and the cost of transportation. Emergency room transport images to physician to help triage in the hospital go faster. When physician are doing research telemedicine help the physician to share information out of the country. The health care industry are trying to improve the medical education system to several community hospital together to help out with the medical school. History of Telemedicine Telemedicine is not something new it has been around for over 30 years. “ The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) played an important part in the early development of telemedicine” (Bashshur and Lovett 1977). NASA's play a big role in telemedicine in the early 1960s when astronauts started piloting in space. Physiological guidelines were telemeter as of together the ship also the space outfits throughout operations. Because of NASA enhancement efforts that people are able to communicate through telemedicine and many of the medical devices that has been using in health care today.
Cardiac monitoring has been available since the early 1960s (Henriques-Forsythe, Ivonye, Jamched, Kamuguisha, Olejeme & Onwuanyi, 2009). George, Walsh-Irwin, Queen, Vander Heuvel, Hawkins, & Roberts (2015) explain, “Remote telemetry monitoring is the monitoring of cardiac rhythms of acute care inpatients from a central locate by personnel who are not directly involved with patient care” (p. 11). Researchers and authors published a multitude of articles, best practices, and standards for hospital monitoring (Drew, 2004, Funk, 2010). A basic internet query reveals injuries and deaths related to remote telemetry monitoring. Guidelines, best practices, and research provide the best evidence in the delivery of safe quality care
Abstract: Telesurgery, or remote access surgery, is "the provision of surgical care over a distance with direct, real-time visualization of the operative field with the help of telepresence technology and force feedback" [Nair, 1]. This paper outlines the potential impact of telesurgery on medicine and analyzes the technical obstacles that hinder the pervasive use of this technology.
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Reimbursement policies prevent the total integration of telemedicine into health care practice (Prinz, 2008). Today, there is no overall telemedicine reimbursement policy in the federal health care system (HRSA, 2011 & OAT, 2003). As a result, reimbursement for telecare has been limited and somewhat haphazard. It’s up to each state to specify what telemedicine services, if any, are eligible for Medicaid reimbursement (HRSA, 2011 & OAT, 2003).
Schlachta-Fairchild, L. (2001). Telehealth: a new venue for health care delivery. In Seminars in oncology nursing (Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 34-40). WB Saunders.
Telepsychiatry has been used for many years and is highly regarded as an area where the use of telemedicine has been successful. It has been defined as “The delivery of healthcare and the exchange of healthcare information for purposes of providing psychiatric services across distances” (Woo...
Telenursing is the application of information and telecommunications technology to offer the nursing or healthcare services to the patients. The most advanced field of telehealth is in household telenursing healthcare. Telenursing devices like computers, telephones and videophones enable nurses to increase successfully the patient numbers seen daily while reducing the entire workload (Arnaert & Delesie, 2001). Nurses are capable of doing this without having to leave the doctor’s office or hospital hence saving a considerable amount of
Telehealth allows a lower-level healthcare practitioner to communicate with a physician or specialist when necessary. Remote rural areas use a Physician Assistant or a Nurse Practitioner on location in remote areas. When procedures call for a physician, an internet or satellite link provides a teleconference with a physician who can prescribe appropriate treatment (Gangon, Duplantie, Fortin & Landry 2006). This could be implemented in lower income urban areas, allowing free clinics to lower costs, and require fewer physicians. Programs that increase the level of healthcare available to school children could be increased.
...ward understanding the cost benefit of telemedicine applications. Hospital Topics: Research and Perspectives on Healthcare
The second organization I viewed was the American Telemedicine Association. The ATA has over 10,000 members according to its website. This organization has a direct focus on telemedicine. This is an area that interests me. I can see it becoming more widespread. People today are used to quick results and information at their fingertips. Telemedicine appears to be a quicker/less expensive alternative to a traditional office visit.
The military and in university research, there are other forms of telemedicine such as robotic equipment used for telesurgery.
Telehealth definition according to our textbook by Hebda, T., & Czar, P., 2013 is the use of telecommunications technologies and electronic information to exchange healthcare information and to provide and support services such as long-distance clinical healthcare to clients. It provides health care to patients that may not be able to have access to care. Telehealth requires a patient to have electronic tools to facilitate this type of service. Electronic tools can be a telephone, computer, or a video camera. The patient is able to call or enable video conferencing to have access to their health care provider. Telehealth allows the patient to have access to preventative care and education on their disease process and how to manage it at home.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been shown to be increasingly important in the education or training and professional practice of healthcare. This paper discusses the impacts of using ICT in Healthcare and its administration. Health Information technology has availed better access to information, improved communication amongst physicians, clinicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers facilitating continuing professional development for healthcare professionals, patients and the community as a whole. This paper takes a look at the roles, benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in healthcare services and goes on to outline the ICT proceeds/equipment used in the health sector such as the
With the help of telehealth and telenursing, overall healthcare costs can be reduced, especially for those patients