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". Telemedicine, as defined by the Field (1996)
healthcare clinicians (Arnaert & Delesie, 2001). Telenursing assures to be a crucial tool to meet such needs. It refers to making use of the telehealth technology in conducting nursing practice and delivering nursing care. Because of the quick telemedicine technology adoption within the healthcare institutions, telenursing emerges as a fresh tool that provokes discussions
TELEMEDICINE What exactly is telemedicine? According to the American Telemedicine Association, “Formally defined, telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. When we think about telemedicine, we think about the growing number of applications and the services using cameras, two-way video chats, electronic mail, smart phones, use of wireless tools and many useful forms of technology
Telemedicine: The Future in Health Care Topic Question: Is telemedicine vital for health care delivery? The idea of telemedicine is not new. In fact, when we get sick we often pick up the phone and discuss our conditions and possible treatments with our health care providers through the telephone. When there is an accident we dial 911 to obtain emergency assistance. These are just a few simple examples of applications of telemedicine. With advancements in technology, the new era of telemedicine
1. Introduction to Telemedicine The use of information and communications technology (ICT) to deliver and support healthcare at a distance are known as telemedicine. Its function in link together two or more healthcare professionals and/or their patients, where they can exchange information for the purposes of diagnosis, education or treatment. This is important as a means for delivering healthcare services that has been recognised and known in recent policy statements which including the NHS's information
Scope of telemedicine is broad enough to encompass exclusive care, and distinctively denotes the provision of healthcare services and instruction remotely, by telecommunications technology. It's defined as the usage of electronic linkages and information technology to offer clinical solutions to patients in different locations. Instances of telemedicine comprise video consultations with experts, distant medical assessments and diagnosis and digital broadcast of medical imaging. Telemedicine companies
Telemedicine is the use of health information technology to deliver health care from one location to another. It has the potential to increase the quality and access to health care and lower costs. From a technology standpoint, telemedicine is the application of telecommunications and computer technologies that are already in use. Technological barriers include instances where the use of technology is believed to not be sophisticated or sufficient enough to perform the task, uncertainty about
Telemedicine, telehealth and related online health information and services advances present a challenge to traditional providers of medicine as well as lawmakers and regulators. Barriers to uniform implementation of telemedicine across the healthcare industry range from; cost, regulatory concerns, reimbursement issues, and lack of standardization among others. (http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/white-papers/telemedicine-the-top-3-obstacles-facing-clinicians-today.html) cites three main obstacles
Telemedicine uses diverse technologies and applications and, as a result, research into telemedicine is important to promote debate on this topic (Ryu, 2012). Communication technologies such as computers, the Internet, and cell phones have revolutionized the way people communicate. It is important to note that communication technologies have been adopted across the world, even in underdeveloped or developing countries (Ryu, 2012). Developing countries have been efficient in adopting and using communication
Introduction Telemedicine is a new advancement that allows medical information to be exchanged and transferred through the phone or internet to improve an individual's health. Approximately, 30% of physicians believe that the use of telemedicine can reduce both error in medical practice, and reduce treatment cost, while improving medical care. There are four main services that can be provided by telemedicine: primary care and specialist referral services, remote patient monitoring, consumer medical
We at Capstone Health Consultants are pleased to provide the Board of Directors of Utopia University Medical Center our recommendations regarding design, development, and deployment of a multi-disciplinary Telemedicine program for outlying clinics. In this document we will discuss the benefits and challenges that exist in setting up such a service. We will then review in detail the important ethical and legal considerations standards that must be met, as well as cost, training and implementation
Burke & Weill, telemedicine is the delivery of health care over telecommunication lines (2013). Telemedicine has become increasingly popular in the field of mental health, as it has been providing patients with quick and efficient access to mental health professionals via videoconference, messaging system, phone or email. This technology has been especially appealing for individuals living in remote areas, who otherwise would not have access to mental health specialists. Telemedicine is not intended
Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another by using electronic communications to improve a patient’s clinical health status. This allows providers to be able to care for patients or give advice to other medical providers in a particular medical subspecialty or healthcare specialization where the recipient of that service is located at a different geographic location from that of the provider. Typically, such services originate from health care systems, hospitals
information. One topic that is explained in the following paragraphs is about telemedicine: the date of inception, the history of telemedicine and its milestones, the uses of telemedicine, how it is affecting patient care and the potential areas for fraud and abuse. Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication technology to provide medical information and services. The World Health Organization describes Telemedicine as, “the delivery of health care services, where distance is a critical factor
Telemedicine Telemedicine can be defined in several different ways. This rapidly growing application of transmitting medical information via the internet, telephone, or other network provide the physician to consult with the patient, or in some instances, provide a medical examination or procedure. Telemedicine can be simple or complex. For example, two health professionals can discuss a case over the telephone in order to collaborate and provide the patient with the best possible care. On the
1. Identify the types of data and information collected in Telemedicine. Owing to prior knowledge that every part of the human body contributes to the health and wellness of the individual., hence, a deterrent health level in a person’s body part would result in an illness. To determine what illness, it is and enforce a successful diagnosis, a variety of data are collected in telemedicine. This data ranges from biomedical data which involves collecting data about the human body namely body temperature
diabetes and its complications is maybe one of the areas where telemedicine has been more broadly experienced. There is sufficient evidence reported by numerous research studies, steadily indicating the advantages of the use of telemedicine in both monitoring and screening for controlling the status of glycemic level, body weight and physical activity of diabetic individuals as well as for patient education and support1 [57]. Telemedicine has also demonstrated to be a worthy tool to support DR management
Legal and Ethical Concerns/Issues Telemedicine is a new comer to the field of medicine and it is the treatment of patients by means of telecommunications technology. Telemedicine is carried out in a variety of ways whether it is by smart phone, wireless tools or other forms of telecommunications. Examples of telemedicine include: 1) transmission of medical images 2) care services at the home of the patient 3) Diagnosis at distance 4) education and training of patients. The diversity of practices
Telemedicine can include using the diagnostic and imaging equipment to get data from patients. The data can be recorded by the computer software and hardware, and then sent the data from on location to another one thought satellites or communication lines. After the data arrived on the computer of a doctor or expert, he can analyze the data to give some result and sent it back. Indeed, a telemedicine system can be very simple; it will only need a computer to connect to a big medical database which
“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