The gap between healthcare outcomes for rich and poor is increasing. Although innovation, digitization, and mobility are the three driving forces questing to balance cost containment and health care quality, we still lack convenience and affordability. Today, not many senior citizens are able to afford healthcare facilities, not all the businesses are providing it to the employees and very few governments are in the position of promising good healthcare facilities and services to the coming generation. Healthcare IT in a Nutshell As of now, we are living the concept of connected health – the Technology Enabled Care (TEC), which involves the convergence of health technology, digital media, and mobile devices. The concept has empowered modern …show more content…
A substantial research has ensured that the TEC, particularly in mobile digitally enabled technology has the potential to reduce healthcare costs and increase effectiveness and access of healthcare services to senior citizens thereby improving the outcome. The power and reach of the technology are capable of improving access and overcoming geographic barriers and shortages of HCP’s. Consequently, providing a more personalized focused and versatile approach to healthcare. TEC Takes Control of Increasing Demands in Healthcare With the increasing global mobile penetration ratio, there is a substantial increase in the number of senior citizens using mobile devices seamlessly. Senior citizens owning a smartphone are being encouraged to exercise, lose weight and improve the monitoring and management of their health, via an astounding array of mobile health applications (apps), including a growing number of medical health …show more content…
Now senior citizens are able to use digital technology for searching information online, sharing experiences and identifying treatment options. Healthcare mobility has played a pivotal role in patient engagement by providing easy access to the information and education. So far, the widely used mobile healthcare apps are fitness, medical references apps. The digital technology has enormous potential to improve many aspects of the health and social care service provisions. In last few years, the immense development in technology helped in improving the capabilities and functionality of wearable apps has greatly improved. Remote patient monitoring or monitoring changes in the health status of a patient from remote locations and using messages to remind or alert patients to adhere to their long-term course or treatment therapy has helped a lot in providing better healthcare services to senior citizens. Compared to 2013 ($2.4 billion), the healthcare mobility market is expected to reach $21.5 billion by 2018 achieving a compound annual growth rate of
Telemedicine hold a great promise in health information technology, it not only promises to improve health care delivery but it also aids in serving the most vulnerable of patients.
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 sophisticated as doing robotic surgery between facilities at different ends of the globe.
“Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status” (American Telemedicine Association, 2013). Telemedicine is the use of technology such as email, mobile devices, and computers to communicate health information (Mayoclinic.com, 2014). Telemedicine has enabled the use of communication technologies by healthcare professionals for the evaluation, diagnose, and the treatment of patients in rural areas (GlobalMed.com, 2014). Telemedicine is used in a variety of health care services like primary care, patients monitoring, health information sharing, health education (America Telemedicine Association, 2013). These services are delivered using various mechanisms such as video conferencing, personal health apps, e-visits (Mayoclinic.com, 2014). These technologies have been proven to increase access, to be cost efficient, to improve quality, and intensify patients’ satisfaction according to the America Telemedicine Association.
...ncement can revolutionize the healthcare sector. Smartphones are more affordable, more accessible to the population than computers because these days everyone own a smartphone and are easier to carry. In the recent years the use of cell phones and wireless sensors to gather data and access health data has grown up tremendously. Lot of mobile applications are already available in the market that count your daily calories intake, keeps track of your nutrition’s and workout plans.
Telemedicine is an emerging technology in contemporary healthcare. Healthcare providers acknowledge the disadvantages of a strenuous distance between patients and providers. Researches and studies, as evidenced by the scientific literature, are conducted to find a way to enhance the delivery of care. As Field (1996) stated, "the intersection of many of these efforts is telemedicine, a combination of mainstream and innovative information technologies".
For the purposes of this paper the term mobile health technology will include some characteristics of the varying terminologies leaning toward a broader understanding of mobile health (mHealth) as defined at the first mHealth summit in 2009. mHealth is defined as the delivery of healthcare services through mobile communication devices (As cited by Torgan, 2009). mHealth creates a participatory environment and helps to facilitate individual responsibility over health care and prevention. mHealth is becoming increasingly more important as the health care industry shifts to new care models that focus on prevention and
The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (2011) suggests effectiveness of specific forms of exercise to maximize mobility and physical activity in the older adults and prevent the number of falls. In particular, when is the best time to institute exercise programs and when are they most effective? (p. 35). Furthermore, the writer suggests whether incorporating hand and feet coordination exercises will further improve the older adults strength and stability. The writer also advises future research on identifying whether reading a book will further improve their sensorimotor skills in addition to their active lifestyle. Hill and Fauerbach (2014) states, “as older adults lose independence, they hold on to what they can control. It is important to strike a balance between reminding them of their limitations and encouraging their independence” (p. 28). Due to this, the writer recommends an app solely dedicated to meet the needs of the patient for those living on their own. The app provides a virtual nurse that will assist the patient throughout the day. Through this app, their diet, physical activity, emotional, and spiritual needs are met and assessed daily. This app will constantly monitor if the older adults are at risk of falling. A study of the effectiveness of this app would one day be
ABSTRACT Technology affects society in every aspect in today’s world. There is not one single industry that has not been affected by technology, but no other industry is more affected than the field of medicine and healthcare. Modern technology has changed the structure and organization of the medical field. With rising health care cost the amount of uninsured people keeps rising higher and higher. With new technology the prices will only continue to rise. There are currently approximately 46 million people without health care coverage and that number continues to climb with rising health care cost. Employers are either no longer able to pay for employee insurance because of the 54 percent cost increase, or they are having to change policies
The constructs of honor and shame have significantly influenced social dynamics and individual identities across various cultures and historical periods. Halvor Moxnes, in his seminal article "Honor and Shame" (2003), provides a comprehensive framework for understanding these social constructs, particularly within Mediterranean societies. Moxnes delineates how honor serves as a public claim to worth, recognized and validated by one's community, whereas shame represents the loss or diminishment of this worth in the eyes of others (Moxnes, 2003, 16). Applying Moxnes's framework to the narrative crafted by Apuleius in "The Golden Ass," specifically focusing on Books 1 to 3, reveals a rich narrative deeply intertwined with these concepts. In this
There are new challenges every year in the health care field. Research on the future of U.S Healthcare System is of paramount importance to the entire Health care industry as well as the citizens of the U.S. To begin with, the research will discuss how challenges for future healthcare services can be enhanced by reducing the costs of medication. By creating a better quality of health care, Information technology advancements, including future funding, lower rising costs, the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The research will also discuss the challenges of market shares for different ages of populating and maintaining a skilled work place. It will further discuss the tentative solutions to these challenges. The role that the government plays to ensure that these challenges are mitigated and that health care is available to all American citizens is also discussed. Among these problems poor quality of care is perhaps the most visible and troubling, resulting in nearly 100,000 preventable deaths each year (Institute of Medicine, 1999) and reduced quality of life for millions of Americans due to non-fatal yet serious adverse events such as wrong-limb amputation, hospital-acquired infection, and medication errors (Institute of Medicine, 2006; Leape, 1997).
In previous years, the healthcare cost was affordable for everyone which gave many individuals chances to have medical insurance providers which can help them with their health. On the Other Hand, the cost has triple over the decade and makes mad it difficult
In order to reduce this inequalities eHealth has been proposed as an approach with the potential to deliver healthcare to all populations (7–10). However as shown by Oh et al. 2005 (11) there is not a single definition, throughout this essay eHealth will be defined as Gustafson & Wyatt, 2005 propose “use of the internet or other electronic media to disseminate health related information or services” (12). In my view eHealth has the capacity to increase healthcare provision, however it is not the panacea that some have described as it has several limitations.
While it can cause harm, technology has many good qualities. Health care facilities can work together efficiently to use social media to engage patients to maintain health care needs and promote treatment options worldwide. Healthcare professional can also teach other doctors and nurses through Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. Social media can create innovation and gives the whole medical field a educational value which should be embraced. Phones are also used by patients to gain knowledge that can be used to better their own life: “19% of smartphone owners have at least one health app on their phone. Exercise, diet, and weight apps are the most popular types” (Penn,
We are living in electrifying times. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is changing every facet of the way we live. Possibly no area is more imperative or more reflective than the improvements we are observing in healthcare (Fox & Duggan, 2012). In current years, there has been an increase of wearable devices, social media, smartphone apps, and telehealth, and each has immense promise for the future of organized health care (Fox & Duggan, 2012). With the capacity to assemble and interpret patient-made data, these mHealth tools keep the assurance of changing the way health care is provided, proposing patients their own customized medical guidance (Manojlovich et al., 2015). Health care availability, affordability, and quality are
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