Essays on Telemedicine

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Strategic grouping in healthcare allows healthcare organizations within an area of similar capabilities and facilities to be grouped and mapped geographically. Strategic mapping and group analysis can enable health care organizations to spot changes and any trends arising in the healthcare sector and in the particular service area the organization falls in to. This enables the top management in a healthcare organization to make prudent management decisions that focus in positioning the organization for better performance in the future. Furthermore, strategic plans that are dynamic and allow for group analysis and mapping enable business implementation in the health care ...

A billboard opens immense opportunities in marketing communications for any hospital. This is one of the best methods of advertisements as it is narrative and cost effective. Placement of its billboard directly adjacent to Brianwood Medical Centre gives an edge to Crestview hospital for many reasons. Firstly, the billboard will certainly influence many of the patients who patronage Brianwood Medical Centre. Some of them may tend to choose Crestview hospital for future medical services. This gives Crestview, a competitive advantage over its rivals. Secondly, there are many patients in Oakland who do not have relation with any hospitals. The ...

Health care standards have been evolving over time. A plethora of processes and forces take part in igniting the developments. These changes could be ad hoc, systematic or even consensual. At the bottom lurks a well-established organizational structure whose object is to review the performance of the standards and propose advancement where circumstances so require. However, certain areas lag, occasioning serious inefficiencies to the system. Often, the legal framework is a serious undoing and affects the realization of these standards. Besides, diverse standards contain varying recommendations, and this tends to atrophy the efforts therewith. Perhaps a biggest of all ...

Tele-Medicine in a Satellite Facility

Telemedicine is an old concept but new technology that enables a healthcare provider at one location to provide basic healthcare services such as diagnosis, intra-operative assistance, and medical consultation to patients, physicians or paramedical staff in a satellite or remote facility. Most researchers and scientist believe that there is no substitute for patient-doctor face to face interaction; however, telemedicine could be used to manage a few medical cases efficiently and remotely. In first prototype of telemedicine was introduced in the 1980’s in the form of slow-scan images, facsimile machine or telephone (Hsieh, & Hsu, 2012).The mode of communications ...

The telehealth platform is already expanding across the world and has begun to influence the traditional in-person care available in multispecialty hospitals. In light of having various state-of-the-art facilities, our organization has got huge potential for launching telehealth services in the immediate future. Based on my research and discussion with a senior clinician in our hospital about the opportunities in store for our organization in the field of telehealth, I foresee a lot of benefits. Some of the salient advantages are listed below: Telehealth services allow rural patients populated in remote clusters to avail health services from consultants without ...

In the first place, telehealth services increase the access of the general public to various health care facilities. For instance, on introducing the remote healthcare services in my organization, rural people can easily obtain specialty care in various departments. Particularly, women with small children need not come all the way to the hospital by travelling long distances (Werner, 2012). In light of our organization’s strategic location amid several originating sites inhabited by medicare beneficiaries, we look forward to doing sizeable telehealth services. Cardiovascular and trauma care we currently specialize in can save lives of many patients who have ...

The rise of new technology has drove hospitals especially in United States to adapt new technology in facilitating healthcare services, and one of these tools is telemedicine or simply telehealth, which has made it possible for the rural patients to get treatment easily. Besides, telehealth can educate students and physicians with ethical consultation, and it gives a sign of satisfaction to both the patients and providers, although on the issues of ethical consideration, more information is needed for understanding. Physicians must allow the patient to make their decision about using the telemedicine, and once they accept, their information should ...

Discussion

The technological terminologies selected include clinical decision support, EHRs, nursing informatics, software, and Telehealth. As stated, clinical decision support systems (CDSs) are information system-based platforms that offer healthcare workers with patient-specific information to enhance service delivery. The best example of such a CDS would be the Zynx Health system. This CDS acts as a clinical reminder support system used by health practitioners in the consultation room to provide information on care plans given patient conditions (Campbell, 2016). Second, EHRs are digital representations of a patient’s information maintained by providers for ease of access in clinical practice. In the ...

Telemedicine has been used to mean the practice of using technology to provide healthcare remotely to patients through broadband connection (Gross Lyle, 2011). The use of telemedicine has various benefits that favor both patients and health practitioners, first and foremost, the technology improves access, and this means that patients do not have to physically visit the health practitioners in order to receive healthcare services from them (“OhioHealth Telemedicine,” 2016). Secondly, telemedicine reduces costs that would be incurred by patients to travel to hospitals. Lastly, it reduces costs to hospitals as physicians sometimes attends to medical situations in time such ...

Introduction

This paper addresses the major steps that Caring Angle Hospital can implement to realize its goals. Also, it recommends one strategy that the heath care provider can adopt to obtain a large market share. Finally, it examines value-added services will strengthen its value proposition.

Major steps for Caring Angle Hospital

Improve the quality of care Improving the quality of care is important since it will prevent patients from hopping from hospital to another. Caring Angle Hospital can employ various strategies to enhance the quality of their services. The hospital administration should consider managing the process of care rather than focusing on controlling on the physicians. ...

Computer science and the developments taking place in this field have proved to be a great boon for the healthcare industry. Since the past twenty years, various new programming languages and applications have been created which make it easier for health care professionals to carry out their health related work efficiently. Twenty years ago, there were no electronic health records of patients in any kind of online database. Records used to be handwritten or typed, but storage and easy access was a problem. With the development of computer science technology and electronic medical records, patient information could be easily ...

Consequences of Utilizing Many Forms of Technology on the Patient-Doctor Relationship

Technology is no doubt the in-thing and advancements in this field are mind-boggling. It has encompassed and now spans across virtually all fields. The health care field has been on the frontline of benefitting from advancements in technology. The application of advanced technology in the field of health care has yielded results which have been nothing short of miraculous (Greenes, 2007). As the advancement in technology has resulted in changes in the methods of treatments, it has also changed the relationship between the patients and the physicians. These changes have been as varied in their effects as in their ...

Senior seminar of Psychology

Fairleigh Dickinson University The main point of this paper is to discuss how Cognitive behavioral therapy can be an effective treatment for Posttraumatic stress Disorder. In today’s world we are able to see how this topic is can be relevant to our lives. Not everybody has the misfortunate of having to go through such a tough disorder. But we never know if there will be a time where it might just hit us or significant others. Therefore having knowledge of this disorder is very important especially for those people that are frequently going through tough times in their ...

Abstract

Lately, the health care sector in New Zealand has been facing challenges related to the old-fashioned method used in offering services. In many occasions, it has made it difficult for patients to access affordable health services since many health hospitals lack the technological capacity to handle the increasing numbers of patients with different ailments. Due to this, the relevant agencies have been pushing health service sector, particularly the public health sector, to embrace modern technology so as to address the health crisis in the country. This has seen many health organizations to launch programs geared towards adherence to the ...

Introduction

Aphasia is a disorder that attacks the sensory system. The person is unable to use the oral, written, auditory comprehension adequately. The interpretation of objects, sounds and feeling is impaired. It is highly associated with diseases such as stroke which leads to paralysis of the brain and nervous system in general. It can also be caused by tumors or cancers that affect the brain as well as any vascular problems affecting the circulation supplying the brain tissues. The problem does not affect the intelligence of the person, but rather their synthesis and interpretation of the same information.

Are all types of speech difficulties aphasia?

All speech ...

Introduction

Telemedicine is the delivery of the healthcare services and clinical information to a patient who is not in a hospital by the use of technology such as the internet, satellites and also the telephone media. This helps improve the patients' clinical health status. Other technological equipment that can be used include; smart phones, emails, two-way videos and many others that involve communication. Simply from a patient's point of view, it is the receiving of medical care from your doctor in the comfort of your home and with the continuous development, this is very possible. There are a number of ...