Telehealth and telemedicine have been widely used to deliver healthcare services like patient/clinician contact, disease prevention and curative care, advice, reminders, education, monitoring, and remote admissions. This presentation covers
- What is Telehealth
- Difference between Telehealth and Telemedicine
- The market of Telehealth
- The problem/need gap it solves
- The attitude of clinicians and patients towards Telehealth
- Telehealth benefits and limitations
- Telehealth services/modalities
- Adoption stages
- Telehealth Case study
Telehealth blossomed during COVID and in doing so has created future demand in a burgeoning healthcare market; (65%) say they plan to continue to use telehealth after the pandemic ends (including half of seniors). In order to meet this new demand, healthcare providers must now also be tech service providers. How can the medical field adapt and equip doctors for the future where website manner is just as important as bedside manner? This panel will unpack everything from doctors of the future, innovation for advanced virtual care, and how telehealth can help usher in a more efficient industry.
Telemedicine is a collection of means or methods for enhancing health care, public health and health education delivery and support using telecommunications technologies. With more than 95% of adults, and 100% of young adults between the age of 18-29 owning a cell phone in the United States, a technology-based health intervention can be available to hard-to-reach populations or underserved areas.
Panelists will engage a rich dialogue and showcase innovative and effective ways to create prevention programs for HIV and STDs using the potential telehealth can offer, specifically with linking young people to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. This plenary brings together leaders in the field of HIV prevention, research and policy along with private organizations and companies that are currently active on the field of biomedical prevention.
Telehealth and telemedicine have been widely used to deliver healthcare services like patient/clinician contact, disease prevention and curative care, advice, reminders, education, monitoring, and remote admissions. This presentation covers
- What is Telehealth
- Difference between Telehealth and Telemedicine
- The market of Telehealth
- The problem/need gap it solves
- The attitude of clinicians and patients towards Telehealth
- Telehealth benefits and limitations
- Telehealth services/modalities
- Adoption stages
- Telehealth Case study
Telehealth blossomed during COVID and in doing so has created future demand in a burgeoning healthcare market; (65%) say they plan to continue to use telehealth after the pandemic ends (including half of seniors). In order to meet this new demand, healthcare providers must now also be tech service providers. How can the medical field adapt and equip doctors for the future where website manner is just as important as bedside manner? This panel will unpack everything from doctors of the future, innovation for advanced virtual care, and how telehealth can help usher in a more efficient industry.
Telemedicine is a collection of means or methods for enhancing health care, public health and health education delivery and support using telecommunications technologies. With more than 95% of adults, and 100% of young adults between the age of 18-29 owning a cell phone in the United States, a technology-based health intervention can be available to hard-to-reach populations or underserved areas.
Panelists will engage a rich dialogue and showcase innovative and effective ways to create prevention programs for HIV and STDs using the potential telehealth can offer, specifically with linking young people to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. This plenary brings together leaders in the field of HIV prevention, research and policy along with private organizations and companies that are currently active on the field of biomedical prevention.
mhealth in cancer supportive care - how eSMART can improve quality of lifeKathi Apostolidis
several mhealth apps already in cancer care but lots need still to be done-patients want safely accessible, transferable data everywhere-eSMART project using ASyMS promises to improve the quality of life of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy- mhealth conference at Bocconi University - Milan
Speaking at the 2015 CCIH Annual Conference, Regan Deming, MPH, Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Officer for the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church examines how UMC's Imagine NO Malaria program increased access to malaria interventions in Zimbabwe by working with the Ministry of Health to engage community volunteers.
Ailsa Claire: Commissioning Intelligence ProgrammeThe King's Fund
Ailsa Claire, Director of Commissioning Development, NHS Yorkshire and Humber, talks on the Commissioning Intelligence programme: What have we learned so far?
First of three presentations on "What is Telehealth, Why Telehealth and Telehealth Demo" as part of the Pennsylvania Telehealth Roundtable that took place on September 30, 2014.
mhealth in cancer supportive care - how eSMART can improve quality of lifeKathi Apostolidis
several mhealth apps already in cancer care but lots need still to be done-patients want safely accessible, transferable data everywhere-eSMART project using ASyMS promises to improve the quality of life of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy- mhealth conference at Bocconi University - Milan
Speaking at the 2015 CCIH Annual Conference, Regan Deming, MPH, Monitoring and Evaluation Technical Officer for the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church examines how UMC's Imagine NO Malaria program increased access to malaria interventions in Zimbabwe by working with the Ministry of Health to engage community volunteers.
Ailsa Claire: Commissioning Intelligence ProgrammeThe King's Fund
Ailsa Claire, Director of Commissioning Development, NHS Yorkshire and Humber, talks on the Commissioning Intelligence programme: What have we learned so far?
First of three presentations on "What is Telehealth, Why Telehealth and Telehealth Demo" as part of the Pennsylvania Telehealth Roundtable that took place on September 30, 2014.
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Global Health Action - Haiti
To contribute to the reduction of maternal and infant mortality in the Petit Goave Region of Haiti.
Mia Forman, MCHIP
CORE Group Spring Meeting, April 29, 2010
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DQ 5-1
Responses
1. Telemedicine is the use of technology to communicate among health professions on the status of a patient’s health. It could include primary care or specialist referral services in which there is need to monitor a patient’s medical and health information. (Jonas & Kovners, 2015). This type of medicine transition patient care from the physician’s office to the patient’s home. Telemedicine holds the promise of being able to provide services to each population with the use of technology in the fields of both health care and communications. For those in remote regions of any state or province, video conferencing and distant consultation could be used to provide care over very large distances.
Describe how it is typically being used in either a rural or an urban setting at the present time.
In the rural setting, a telemedicine health care network consists of rural health care centers that are connected to regional hospitals through telecommunication/data technology and (telemedicine-enabled) medical equipment. The centers have medical personnel who help with doctor -patient interactions and medical examinations. The diagnosis and patient monitoring are all done remotely. (Ishfaq, R., & Raja, U., 2015).
For the setting you chose, what are telemedicine's overall strengths? What are its overall weaknesses?
The overall strengths in the rural setting is the ready assess to health care. The advantages of this include removal of transportation issues to major cities, reduction in cost of health care and the mere fact that health care is available to the people in the rural areas. The overall weakness will include the availability of enough health care centers to cater for the health needs of a community
Next, select an allied health profession and describe how telemedicine is now or could affect patient care in that field.
Laboratory testing is an integral part of any health care diagnosis and treatment therefore it is important to have quick and accurate laboratory results. Point-of-care testing(POCT) has been in existence for a long time and has been proven to be effective. The quick and convenient way of using POCT and the fact that it can be done anywhere is of great importance to many patients in rural areas. There is however the need for training to use the equipment accurately. Other areas of concern would be the weather conditions in the rural areas which could affect the efficacy of the reagents in the equipment.
Reference
Ishfaq, R., & Raja, U. (2015). Bridging the Healthcare Access Divide: A Strategic Planning Model for Rural Telemedicine Network. Decision Sciences, 46(4), 755-790. doi:10.1111/deci.12165 Retrieved on January 1, 2018 from https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=109115177&site=eds-live&scope=site
Jonas, S. and Kovner, A.R., 2015 “Health Care Delivery in the United States” Retrieved on January 1, 2018 from http://gcumedia.com/digital-resources/springe.
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1. THE IMPACT OF TELEMEDICINE ON RURAL HEALTH: A LITERATURE REVIEW
ASHLEY BRADLEY, BS & MARTHA DAVIS VIGNES, MA
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA AHEC
Abstract
The practice of telemedicine is designed to increase
access to healthcare through the innovative use of
telecommunication technology (Mair and Whitten, 2000).
When properly implemented, telemedicine can reduce service
barriers in rural areas and provide immediate access to
treatment that is efficient, high quality, and cost effective.
Health professional shortage areas along with increasing
healthcare costs and patient expectations have created the
demand to find alternative methods of health care delivery
(Mair and Whitten, 2000).
Telemedicine Techniques
Store and Forward (“e-care”) - the transmission of stored
patient data
Remote monitoring – transmission of patient data from sensors
and monitoring equipment
Interactive Telemedicine- interaction in real-time,
videoconferencing between a patient and a clinician
Telemedicine Equipment
Video Cart
Bluetooth Stethoscope
Exam Camera
Ultrasound extensions
• Abdominal
• Vascular
• Endocavity
Advantages & Barriers
Advantages:
Increased access to care
Less transportation issues
Follow up appointments
Prenatal care
Specialty services close to
home
Projects in Alabama
ADPH Telemedicine Initiative - providing access to
telemedine in county health departments
Rural Health Association - increasing awareness for
telemedicine in rural Alabama
UAB Emedicine - urgent care service that enables patients to
use their desktop or mobile decide to interact with providers
(Greer, 2014)
North Alabama Neuro-Stroke Network - tele-stroke camera
system allowing neurologists in Huntsville to see and talk to
patients in real time at any affiliate hospital
Medical AIDS Outreach - doctors in Montgomery treat HIV
patients at satellite facilities in rural communities
Southeast Alabama Medical Center TeleStroke program -
partnership with 5 hospitals in the Wiregrass region to
provide comprehensive quality stroke care and prevention.
Telemedicine in Rural Communities
• Only 16/54 counties considered rural by the Alabama Rural
Health Association have hospitals with Obstetrical services.
• Only 1/12 Black Belt counties have a hospital with obstetrical
services.
• Alabama has 80 sites that provide telemedine throughout the
state (Yurkanin, 2016).
• Telemedicine is expected to increase the fairness and equality
of the distribution of services, because of the accessibility of
health services, especially in remote areas (Rine, Ohinmaa, &
Hailey, 2001).
• Telemedicine is an economic alternative to transporting
patients long distances to receive care.
Applying Telemedicine Practices
Awareness: Many patients and rural communities do not know
that telemedicine is an option. Become familiar with
Telemedicine programs in your area to refer patients and
community partners to.
Education: Promote or sponsor programs that teach providers
how to use telemedicine equipment.
Host: Host a telemedicine site in your office to increase access
to care in your community.
References
Greer, T. (2014). UAB Medicine launches state’s first online service to treat common medical conditions.
Retrieved from: https://www.uab.edu/news/focus-on-patient-care/item/5131-uab-medicine-launches-
state-s-first-online-service-to-treat-common-medical-conditions Retrieval date: June 20, 2016.
Mair, F and Whitten, P (2000). Systematic review of studies of patient satisfaction with telemedicine.
Information in Practice. BMJ volume 320 pp. 1517-1520.
Roine, R, Ohinmaa, A, and Hailey, D. (2001). Assessing telemedicine: a systematic review of the literature.
CMAJ 165(6) pp. 765-771
Yurkanin, A. (2016). Dailing up the doctor: Telemedicine gets a vital boost in Alabama. Retrieved from:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/03/dialing_up_the_doctor_telemedi.html. Retrieval date: June
20, 2016.
Barriers:
Reimbursement
Coordination
Marketing of Services
Bandwidth
Availability of physicians
Limitations of services