Telehealth In Healthcare

Telehealth Increasing Access to Health Care
Organizational Change Readiness Assessment
Facility’s Readiness Assessment The selected assessment tool reviewed influences affecting the facilities’ ability to change and identified important elements of change: urgency, leadership, trust, and communication (Clay & Norris-Tirrell, 2016). First, the assessment revealed the facility understands there is an urgency for change, thereby scoring high in this category. Next, the facility scored neutral in the leadership category as there was a knowledge deficit concerning this category. Thirdly, the facility yielded a high score in trust indicating the employees have a loyalty to the organization. Finally, the evaluation indicates a moderate score in

The question needs to encompass five elements: patient population, intervention, comparison, outcomes, and time. The PICOT research question is as followed: In a primary care setting will providing educational in-services to medical staff and patients concerning telehealth and telemedicine services compared to not providing education increase access to care over a twelve-month period.
Purpose and Objective The purpose of the research is to determine a positive correlation between increasing education concerning telehealth and telemedicine services and access to care within the VA Healthcare System via primary care service. The objective of the project is to increase health care access to Veterans via telemedicine/ telemedicine services. Currently, the national metric for telehealth/telemedicine enrollment is 1.6 of the facilities’ population; and the selected facility’s enrollment is 1.4 (VHA Support Service Center Capital Assets Databases, 2018).
Supporting

Harzheim (2017) is a narrative study, noting how a small group of physicians with experience with primary care and minimal information concerning telemedicine/telehealth successful implemented a teleconsult program. The program serviced 9 out of 26 states in Brazil and was initiated in 2007. After education and protocols were developed, a teleconsultation program was manifested. The teleconsulting program allowed dialogue between providers with the goal of resolving medical issues without in-person specialty consultation appointments. The program has been deemed successful as evidenced by over 83,000 hotline teleconsultations by the end of 2016 with a 95% approval rate; and overdue specialty appointments were decreased by 122,000 in two years (Gonçalves, Umpierre, D'Avila, Katz, Mengue, Siqueira, & ... Harzheim,