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In the new healthcare industry, providers and patients will thrive by deploying intelligent technology to deliver care sooner and more effectively. New solutions include Kofax Smart Process Applications and Smart Mobile Apps, which enable healthcare organizations to automatically and accurately capture, validate, extract and classify information form anywhere inside or outside the organization.
The document discusses the challenges facing medical claims processing, including the large number of paper claims submitted each year and anticipated increase due to the Affordable Care Act. It notes that billions are spent on mispayments and interacting with health plans to correct errors. The Kofax Medical Claims Automation Solution aims to address these challenges by automating the extraction of data from paper and electronic claims, classifying them, validating the data, and exporting it in standard formats. It is designed to work with both old and new medical coding systems and claims forms to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
This document discusses the role of information technology in hospitals. It provides information on various IT facilities available at different hospitals in India including AIIMS, Shanti Mukund, Fortis Escorts, Nirmaya, Shubham and Medanta. Some key IT functions that help hospitals include data capture, storage, processing, transmission, retrieval and display. These help with tasks like medical tests, surgeries, accounting and maintaining patient records. The document also compares the various online facilities available at the surveyed hospitals and provides a ranking of the hospitals based on their IT infrastructure.
This document discusses electronic health record (EHR) standards in India. It provides an overview of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's EHR standards initiative, including the standards that were originally notified in 2013 for identifiers, codes, content formats, messaging, and security/access control. It outlines the EHR Review Committee's recent effort to update the standards to align with international standards and India's membership in SNOMED CT. The major revisions suggested by the committee are summarized, including recommendations to use SNOMED CT as the primary clinical terminology and clarify guidelines on various standards.
1) The document describes Eventus, an integrated healthcare platform founded by Fardeen Siddiqui and Dr. Rahil Qamar Siddiqui that aims to build the largest healthcare ecosystem in India.
2) It outlines the current fragmented state of healthcare in India and Eventus' vision to create a standardized, integrated platform that connects patients, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and labs.
3) Eventus uses international healthcare standards to ensure interoperability and features like online appointment booking, clinical note taking, and analytics to make healthcare more efficient and patient-centric.
This document summarizes information about the IMSS EHR & VistA Implementation project in Mexico. It provides contact information for two IMSS managers leading the project. It also provides background on Mexico and IMSS, including statistics on population, healthcare services provided, and budget. The document outlines IMSS' goals for an electronic health record to store clinical information from all IMSS medical facilities and make it accessible anywhere on their network. It describes how the EHR will use standards like HL7 and DICOM to allow information exchange between clinics and hospitals.
This document outlines the keynote address by Prof. S. Yunkap Kwankam on going digital and scaling digital health interventions. It discusses:
1. Digital health priority areas from 2006 that have not significantly changed, including telemedicine, electronic health records, and mobile health applications.
2. The benefits of digital health are well understood but limited by critical factors like scale. Examples are provided of scale limitations in information-intensive applications.
3. A framework is proposed to guide scaling digital health interventions through identifying obstacles, exchanging ideas, and structuring dialog around specific applications and themes.
4. Conclusions emphasize the need to focus on overall development with digital health, address grand challenges
In the new healthcare industry, providers and patients will thrive by deploying intelligent technology to deliver care sooner and more effectively. New solutions include Kofax Smart Process Applications and Smart Mobile Apps, which enable healthcare organizations to automatically and accurately capture, validate, extract and classify information form anywhere inside or outside the organization.
The document discusses the challenges facing medical claims processing, including the large number of paper claims submitted each year and anticipated increase due to the Affordable Care Act. It notes that billions are spent on mispayments and interacting with health plans to correct errors. The Kofax Medical Claims Automation Solution aims to address these challenges by automating the extraction of data from paper and electronic claims, classifying them, validating the data, and exporting it in standard formats. It is designed to work with both old and new medical coding systems and claims forms to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
This document discusses the role of information technology in hospitals. It provides information on various IT facilities available at different hospitals in India including AIIMS, Shanti Mukund, Fortis Escorts, Nirmaya, Shubham and Medanta. Some key IT functions that help hospitals include data capture, storage, processing, transmission, retrieval and display. These help with tasks like medical tests, surgeries, accounting and maintaining patient records. The document also compares the various online facilities available at the surveyed hospitals and provides a ranking of the hospitals based on their IT infrastructure.
This document discusses electronic health record (EHR) standards in India. It provides an overview of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's EHR standards initiative, including the standards that were originally notified in 2013 for identifiers, codes, content formats, messaging, and security/access control. It outlines the EHR Review Committee's recent effort to update the standards to align with international standards and India's membership in SNOMED CT. The major revisions suggested by the committee are summarized, including recommendations to use SNOMED CT as the primary clinical terminology and clarify guidelines on various standards.
1) The document describes Eventus, an integrated healthcare platform founded by Fardeen Siddiqui and Dr. Rahil Qamar Siddiqui that aims to build the largest healthcare ecosystem in India.
2) It outlines the current fragmented state of healthcare in India and Eventus' vision to create a standardized, integrated platform that connects patients, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and labs.
3) Eventus uses international healthcare standards to ensure interoperability and features like online appointment booking, clinical note taking, and analytics to make healthcare more efficient and patient-centric.
This document summarizes information about the IMSS EHR & VistA Implementation project in Mexico. It provides contact information for two IMSS managers leading the project. It also provides background on Mexico and IMSS, including statistics on population, healthcare services provided, and budget. The document outlines IMSS' goals for an electronic health record to store clinical information from all IMSS medical facilities and make it accessible anywhere on their network. It describes how the EHR will use standards like HL7 and DICOM to allow information exchange between clinics and hospitals.
This document outlines the keynote address by Prof. S. Yunkap Kwankam on going digital and scaling digital health interventions. It discusses:
1. Digital health priority areas from 2006 that have not significantly changed, including telemedicine, electronic health records, and mobile health applications.
2. The benefits of digital health are well understood but limited by critical factors like scale. Examples are provided of scale limitations in information-intensive applications.
3. A framework is proposed to guide scaling digital health interventions through identifying obstacles, exchanging ideas, and structuring dialog around specific applications and themes.
4. Conclusions emphasize the need to focus on overall development with digital health, address grand challenges
Creating large scale telehealth network : A story from the USA by Adam Darkins, Vice President, Medical Affairs & Enterprise Technology Development, Medtronics, USA
Explains about Health Record Standards, ICTs, Standards for Healthcare Sector, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. For more information visit: http://www.transformhealth-it.org/
This document discusses electronic health records (EHRs) and their benefits. It defines an EHR as a digital version of a patient's medical record containing their history from multiple doctors. The benefits of EHRs include improved patient care through better information availability and decision making, increased patient participation through communication, improved care coordination between specialists, improved diagnostics and outcomes through aiding diagnosis and reducing errors, and practice efficiencies and cost savings through automation and more efficient workflows. However, EHR adoption in Indonesia faces challenges related to legal aspects of medical record keeping and interoperability between different healthcare provider systems. Open-source solutions like SIMKES Khanza have been developed to help providers implement EHRs.
Desktop virtualization is becoming increasingly popular in the healthcare industry as it allows medical professionals fast and secure access to patient information from any device, saving time and improving security. Adoption rates have grown rapidly, with studies finding that desktop virtualization can reduce daily login times from 45 minutes to just 3-5 minutes. It also provides significant financial benefits and security by removing patient data from devices and storing it securely in datacenters, helping minimize the risks of data breaches from lost or stolen equipment.
The document discusses how electronic health records (EHRs) and mobile technologies can help manage chronic diseases and promote wellness in Indian schools. It outlines several benefits:
1) EHRs can help schools better manage student emergencies by providing important health information quickly.
2) Chronic disease management systems linked to EHRs can help students manage conditions like diabetes.
3) EHRs can facilitate individualized health education and wellness promotion to students via links, counseling referrals, and automated reminders on mobile phones.
4) EHR data analysis may help public health agencies understand disease prevalence and formulate policies through systematic surveillance of student health across schools.
5) Technology can
This document provides a timeline of the history of electronic health records (EHR) from the 1960s to the present. Some of the key events include the development of one of the earliest clinical data management systems in the 1960s, the shift to computer-based medical indexing in 1965, the introduction of the problem-oriented medical record in the late 1960s, the initiation of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) in the early 1970s, the development of the first electronic medical record system in 1972, and the passage of regulations like HIPAA in 1996 and HITECH in 2009 that promoted the adoption of EHRs.
These slides review problems with current electronic medical record (EMR) systems and makes suggestions for future improvements in design and usability. This work was sponsored by the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (www.TheSHIPHome.org).
Computer Information Systems and the Electronic Health RecordRebotto89
Paper-based health records are being replaced by electronic health records (EHRs) to improve patient care. A clinical information system (CIS) is a collection of applications that provides centralized access to patient information across locations. Choosing a CIS requires input from all users and consideration of costs, which can range from $1-2 million for small hospitals to over $1 billion for large hospitals. Ensuring security of patient data and regular system updates are also important factors in selecting and implementing a CIS/EHR.
Presentation at the National Capitalization conference of the Swiss-Ukrainian Mother and Child Health Programme (Kyiv, Ukraine, April 23, 2015)
http://motherandchild.org.ua/eng/event/768
Health information management (HIM) involves various services across multiple healthcare settings including coding, medical records, transcription, chart completion, release of information, and clinical documentation improvement. HIM departments are structured with a director overseeing areas like privacy, compliance, and revenue cycle. Workflows in HIM departments involve managing paper medical records and transitioning to hybrid or electronic systems for chart retrieval, document management, and transcription. Coding clinical data from encounters provides reimbursement through assigned numeric codes.
The document discusses urgent care centers and transactions involving them. It provides background on what urgent care is and how it differs from emergency rooms and primary care. It then summarizes key points about the urgent care industry, including its growth in recent years, typical locations and payor mixes, the fragmented nature of ownership, and drivers of mergers and acquisitions. Transaction multiples are also reviewed, with strategic and private equity buyers prominent. An example acquisition of MedExpress is highlighted. The remainder of the document covers considerations for structuring and preparing a business for an exit transaction in the urgent care space.
The document discusses electronic medical record (EMR) systems. It begins by explaining how the healthcare sector has evolved from relying on physical files to using EMR systems. It then defines EMR systems as electronic health records created and managed by healthcare organizations. The key benefits of EMR systems include improved patient safety, care quality, and access to information. However, barriers like costs have limited widespread adoption. Current research focuses on improving interoperability between different EMR systems. Overall, EMR systems play important roles in healthcare by facilitating information sharing, collaboration and patient care.
Accountable Care Workgroup: Draft RecommendationsBrian Ahier
The document outlines the recommendations from an Accountable Care Workgroup on advancing health IT capabilities to support accountable care models. It discusses the workgroup background and members, their charge to provide recommendations to ONC and HHS, and six draft recommendation areas: 1) HIT adoption and infrastructure, 2) access to administrative and encounter data, 3) exchanging data across healthcare organizations, 4) data portability, 5) clinician use of data to improve care, and 6) streamlining administration of value-based programs. Specific draft recommendations are provided under each area.
There are two main types of information systems: clinical information systems and administrative information systems. Clinical information systems store and provide access to patient data to support care, while administrative systems support management functions. Information systems provide several benefits, including improved efficiency, quality of care, and cost reductions. However, they are also very costly to implement and maintain. Telehealth technologies like teledermatology, telepsychiatry, and telepathology are being used to expand access to care for remote populations. Further implementation of telemedicine could enhance care for groups with limited access.
Health informatics : How to increase it’s utilization from data display to de...Dr Vijay Raaghavan
This document discusses how health informatics and leveraging information technology can help hospitals better understand data and make improved decisions. It notes that simply displaying data is not enough and that understanding changing patterns on a daily basis is needed. It outlines the basic IT requirements including software, hardware and networking. Key hospital information system modules are identified like outpatient, admissions/discharges, billing etc. Critical success factors for IT implementation include usability, customization, addressing future needs. Dashboards and visualizations of data on consultations, revenues, patient satisfaction are presented as examples of how data can be analyzed to aid decision making. The document emphasizes that better decisions through understanding data are needed to move beyond just projections based on past performance.
This document discusses managing IT, telecommunications, personal data rules, and software regulatory requirements in the EU and global environment, including case studies. It covers the EU political context regarding eHealth initiatives and changes to regulations for medicinal products, medical devices, and health data protection. Specific issues addressed include the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, regulation of software as medical devices, reimbursement, licensing, and liability in cross-border healthcare and eHealth. A case study is also presented.
The document discusses electronic health records (EHR) in long-term care facilities. It covers the goals of EHR which include improving care, sharing records efficiently, and using data to enhance care delivery. However, several issues need to be addressed such as standards development, costs, security, and usability. Nursing facilities can participate in local EHR initiatives and ensure their vendors plans support emerging requirements for interoperable health records. The vision is for an integrated healthcare system and strategies include incentivizing EHR adoption, reducing investment risks, and developing national and regional health information networks.
Creating large scale telehealth network : A story from the USA by Adam Darkins, Vice President, Medical Affairs & Enterprise Technology Development, Medtronics, USA
Explains about Health Record Standards, ICTs, Standards for Healthcare Sector, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. For more information visit: http://www.transformhealth-it.org/
This document discusses electronic health records (EHRs) and their benefits. It defines an EHR as a digital version of a patient's medical record containing their history from multiple doctors. The benefits of EHRs include improved patient care through better information availability and decision making, increased patient participation through communication, improved care coordination between specialists, improved diagnostics and outcomes through aiding diagnosis and reducing errors, and practice efficiencies and cost savings through automation and more efficient workflows. However, EHR adoption in Indonesia faces challenges related to legal aspects of medical record keeping and interoperability between different healthcare provider systems. Open-source solutions like SIMKES Khanza have been developed to help providers implement EHRs.
Desktop virtualization is becoming increasingly popular in the healthcare industry as it allows medical professionals fast and secure access to patient information from any device, saving time and improving security. Adoption rates have grown rapidly, with studies finding that desktop virtualization can reduce daily login times from 45 minutes to just 3-5 minutes. It also provides significant financial benefits and security by removing patient data from devices and storing it securely in datacenters, helping minimize the risks of data breaches from lost or stolen equipment.
The document discusses how electronic health records (EHRs) and mobile technologies can help manage chronic diseases and promote wellness in Indian schools. It outlines several benefits:
1) EHRs can help schools better manage student emergencies by providing important health information quickly.
2) Chronic disease management systems linked to EHRs can help students manage conditions like diabetes.
3) EHRs can facilitate individualized health education and wellness promotion to students via links, counseling referrals, and automated reminders on mobile phones.
4) EHR data analysis may help public health agencies understand disease prevalence and formulate policies through systematic surveillance of student health across schools.
5) Technology can
This document provides a timeline of the history of electronic health records (EHR) from the 1960s to the present. Some of the key events include the development of one of the earliest clinical data management systems in the 1960s, the shift to computer-based medical indexing in 1965, the introduction of the problem-oriented medical record in the late 1960s, the initiation of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) in the early 1970s, the development of the first electronic medical record system in 1972, and the passage of regulations like HIPAA in 1996 and HITECH in 2009 that promoted the adoption of EHRs.
These slides review problems with current electronic medical record (EMR) systems and makes suggestions for future improvements in design and usability. This work was sponsored by the Szollosi Healthcare Innovation Program (www.TheSHIPHome.org).
Computer Information Systems and the Electronic Health RecordRebotto89
Paper-based health records are being replaced by electronic health records (EHRs) to improve patient care. A clinical information system (CIS) is a collection of applications that provides centralized access to patient information across locations. Choosing a CIS requires input from all users and consideration of costs, which can range from $1-2 million for small hospitals to over $1 billion for large hospitals. Ensuring security of patient data and regular system updates are also important factors in selecting and implementing a CIS/EHR.
Presentation at the National Capitalization conference of the Swiss-Ukrainian Mother and Child Health Programme (Kyiv, Ukraine, April 23, 2015)
http://motherandchild.org.ua/eng/event/768
Health information management (HIM) involves various services across multiple healthcare settings including coding, medical records, transcription, chart completion, release of information, and clinical documentation improvement. HIM departments are structured with a director overseeing areas like privacy, compliance, and revenue cycle. Workflows in HIM departments involve managing paper medical records and transitioning to hybrid or electronic systems for chart retrieval, document management, and transcription. Coding clinical data from encounters provides reimbursement through assigned numeric codes.
The document discusses urgent care centers and transactions involving them. It provides background on what urgent care is and how it differs from emergency rooms and primary care. It then summarizes key points about the urgent care industry, including its growth in recent years, typical locations and payor mixes, the fragmented nature of ownership, and drivers of mergers and acquisitions. Transaction multiples are also reviewed, with strategic and private equity buyers prominent. An example acquisition of MedExpress is highlighted. The remainder of the document covers considerations for structuring and preparing a business for an exit transaction in the urgent care space.
The document discusses electronic medical record (EMR) systems. It begins by explaining how the healthcare sector has evolved from relying on physical files to using EMR systems. It then defines EMR systems as electronic health records created and managed by healthcare organizations. The key benefits of EMR systems include improved patient safety, care quality, and access to information. However, barriers like costs have limited widespread adoption. Current research focuses on improving interoperability between different EMR systems. Overall, EMR systems play important roles in healthcare by facilitating information sharing, collaboration and patient care.
Accountable Care Workgroup: Draft RecommendationsBrian Ahier
The document outlines the recommendations from an Accountable Care Workgroup on advancing health IT capabilities to support accountable care models. It discusses the workgroup background and members, their charge to provide recommendations to ONC and HHS, and six draft recommendation areas: 1) HIT adoption and infrastructure, 2) access to administrative and encounter data, 3) exchanging data across healthcare organizations, 4) data portability, 5) clinician use of data to improve care, and 6) streamlining administration of value-based programs. Specific draft recommendations are provided under each area.
There are two main types of information systems: clinical information systems and administrative information systems. Clinical information systems store and provide access to patient data to support care, while administrative systems support management functions. Information systems provide several benefits, including improved efficiency, quality of care, and cost reductions. However, they are also very costly to implement and maintain. Telehealth technologies like teledermatology, telepsychiatry, and telepathology are being used to expand access to care for remote populations. Further implementation of telemedicine could enhance care for groups with limited access.
Health informatics : How to increase it’s utilization from data display to de...Dr Vijay Raaghavan
This document discusses how health informatics and leveraging information technology can help hospitals better understand data and make improved decisions. It notes that simply displaying data is not enough and that understanding changing patterns on a daily basis is needed. It outlines the basic IT requirements including software, hardware and networking. Key hospital information system modules are identified like outpatient, admissions/discharges, billing etc. Critical success factors for IT implementation include usability, customization, addressing future needs. Dashboards and visualizations of data on consultations, revenues, patient satisfaction are presented as examples of how data can be analyzed to aid decision making. The document emphasizes that better decisions through understanding data are needed to move beyond just projections based on past performance.
This document discusses managing IT, telecommunications, personal data rules, and software regulatory requirements in the EU and global environment, including case studies. It covers the EU political context regarding eHealth initiatives and changes to regulations for medicinal products, medical devices, and health data protection. Specific issues addressed include the proposed General Data Protection Regulation, regulation of software as medical devices, reimbursement, licensing, and liability in cross-border healthcare and eHealth. A case study is also presented.
The document discusses electronic health records (EHR) in long-term care facilities. It covers the goals of EHR which include improving care, sharing records efficiently, and using data to enhance care delivery. However, several issues need to be addressed such as standards development, costs, security, and usability. Nursing facilities can participate in local EHR initiatives and ensure their vendors plans support emerging requirements for interoperable health records. The vision is for an integrated healthcare system and strategies include incentivizing EHR adoption, reducing investment risks, and developing national and regional health information networks.
The document discusses various solutions offered by a company related to hospital management and operations. It includes 7 categories of solutions:
1) Project management services for planning, designing, and managing hospital projects.
2) Hospital operations services including systems design, standard operating procedures, supply chain and cost management.
3) Establishing customer relationship management and satisfaction feedback systems.
4) Implementing hospital accreditation and certification standards.
5) Human resource management services including planning, recruitment, and staff training.
6) Designing and implementing hospital information systems and monitoring indicators.
7) Implementing hospital research projects and quality improvement initiatives like Six Sigma.
A must from IESE "Center for Researh in Healthcare Innovation Management".. The study try to identify and undestand potential changes thay may impact in Public Hospitals.
Process Redesign for Improving the Traceability of Medical Instruments: Case ...Afrooz Moatari-Kazerouni
The document summarizes a case study comparing barcode and RFID technologies for improving traceability of medical instruments between an operating room and central sterilization department at a hospital. The study involved documenting the current "as-is" process, evaluating different "what-if" scenarios using barcode or RFID, and simulating the scenarios using Arena simulation software. Key findings from the simulation results showed that using RFID technology provided benefits like reducing the average time medical instrument sets spent in the system and average costs of resources compared to using barcode technology and case carts.
Draft Brief - West Vancouver Centre for Art Architecture DesignStacy Reynaud
2013: Based on further community consultation, the Cultural Facilities Strategy was refined to the current Centre for Art, Architecture + Design Brief.
2013: The Economic Planning Group was contracted to conduct a business plan for the new facility.
2013: The West Vancouver Society for Art, Architecture + Design was formally registered.
2013: The West Vancouver Society for Art, Architecture + Design released a call for Expressions of Interest for the design of the building.
Intuitive Navigation for Future HospitalsBen Kraal
My presentation for the QUT IHBI Quest seminar on Friday 19 July. It's supposed to be a 5 minute presentation with three other academics followed by a panel discussion.
Tools for understanding; tools for designingBen Kraal
The document discusses rethinking the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) software in courts. It proposes that ASR designed for courts should embrace errorful recognition, as normal ASR is not suitable due to the usual presence of errors. It suggests using techniques like caricatured scenarios and actor-network theory to reveal assumptions and understand what elements in the courtroom are obdurate (resistant to change) and plastic (changeable). The goal is to design a new type of ASR that respects obdurate traditions but targets plastic work practices, with errorful recognition integrated into workflows and speech archived for later use rather than transcribed verbatim.
A Brief (and Practical) Introduction to Information ArchitectureLouis Rosenfeld
Keynote presentation by Louis Rosenfeld at the Usability and Accessibility for the Web International Seminar; 26 July 2007, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
This document outlines the design process for a project from programming through schematic design. It discusses key considerations like form and function, design processes, demand estimates, space planning, process flows, programming, clinical adjacencies, and relationships, zoning, specifications, schematic design, layout design, room detailing, and integrated room data.
Kohinoor Hospital in Mumbai is Asia's first LEED Platinum certified hospital built in 2013. The 5-story structure with double basement was designed by SSA Architects to be highly energy efficient and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to improve patient care. A range of sustainable design features were implemented, including natural lighting, recycled and regional building materials, water-efficient landscaping, and wastewater recycling.
Santiago Calatrava is an architect, artist, and engineer known for incorporating natural forms and the unity of art and science into his works. Some of his most notable projects include the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, the Athens Olympic Sports Complex, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. The Turning Torso in Malmo, Sweden is one of Calatrava's most distinctive buildings. At 190 meters tall, it is the tallest building in Scandinavia and consists of nine twisting cubes with a central reinforced concrete core. The twisting design was inspired by the human form and the steel exterior provides structure.
This document summarizes a presentation given by Jane McElroy on challenges and opportunities for creating sustainable and efficient healthcare. It discusses rising healthcare costs, changing demographics like aging populations, shortages in healthcare talent, ensuring access to care, and advances in technology. It presents four hospital projects - Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cleveland Clinic, and Jiahui International Hospital in Shanghai - that show how architecture and design can help address these challenges by reducing costs, accommodating new patient types, boosting recruitment, providing better access, and accommodating new technologies.
This document discusses the components and planning considerations for inpatient ward design in hospitals. It notes that inpatient wards consist of primary accommodation for patient beds and nursing stations, as well as ancillary, auxiliary, and sanitary accommodation to support patient care. Key factors in ward planning include the hospital policy and functions, staffing patterns, workflow, safety, infection control, and patient privacy and dignity. Recommendations are provided for the size, layout, and facilities of inpatient wards.
This proposal of work contains details and samples of the user centric design process I follow. I have been trying to find a good graph that represents the process, but at the end I have decided to make my own! ;)
The document provides details of the proposed Vardan Multi Speciality Hospital project in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The key points are:
1) The hospital will have 222 beds initially with 120 beds in the first phase and will provide multi-specialty care.
2) The total project cost for the first phase is estimated to be Rs. 930 lakhs which will cover construction, equipment, furniture and other expenses.
3) The hospital will have departments like medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics etc. and support services like operation theaters, laboratory, radiology etc.
The document provides guidance on getting started with hospital design in India. It discusses the importance of management consulting to conduct a market survey of the healthcare needs in the area through household, doctor, and institutional surveys. The surveys analyze disease profiles, healthcare choices, opinions on deficiencies, and critical success factors. The data is used to determine the appropriate facility mix, size, and services for the proposed hospital project.
The document provides an industry analysis of Apollo Hospitals, a leading private healthcare provider in India. It discusses the healthcare industry in India and key players. Apollo Hospitals was established in 1983 and today has over 7500 beds across 43 hospitals in India and overseas. It provides a wide range of healthcare services including hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, insurance, and education and aims to make India a global healthcare destination. The document outlines Apollo's business units and services.
Telemedicine has evolved from early 20th century ideas of using radio to connect doctors and patients remotely. In the 1960s and 1970s, government and private organizations invested in research on telemedicine. There are three main types of telemedicine: interactive, store-and-forward, and remote patient monitoring using mobile devices. Telemedicine provides benefits like lower costs, improved access to care, and reduced infection risk. However, insurance coverage and protecting medical data are disadvantages. Teleconsultation allows specialists to consult without travel via electronic means. Major international organizations support telemedicine research and applications. Saudi Arabia has implemented telehealth applications like Sehhaty and Anat.
Telephone medical consults provide a convenient and affordable option for routine medical care through telephone consultations with physicians. The document discusses how telephone consults can increase access to care, particularly for rural communities and those who have difficulty taking time off work to visit a doctor. Over 1.5 million Americans currently use telephone consult services, which studies have shown provide equivalent healthcare outcomes at a lower cost. The model supports a more patient-centric approach through increased convenience and privacy compared to traditional office visits. It also helps reduce emergency room overuse for non-urgent issues.
Telemedicine uses telecommunications technology to provide healthcare services from a distance. It can involve real-time video consultations between providers and patients, or storing and forwarding medical images and data for offline review. While telemedicine has benefits like improving access to specialists in rural areas, it still faces barriers like high infrastructure costs, lack of standards and regulations, and reimbursement issues. As technologies improve and costs decrease, telemedicine has great potential to expand healthcare access.
Chapter 8 Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Dis.docxchristinemaritza
This chapter discusses telehealth and its potential to improve access to healthcare regardless of location. It defines key telehealth terms and describes the historical development of telehealth. Examples are provided of different telehealth programs demonstrating the range of services. The chapter outlines considerations for clinical practice and organizational implementation of telehealth. It also discusses regulatory and policy issues, future trends, and technologies used in telehealth.
AI in telemedicine: Shaping a new era of virtual healthcare.pdfStephenAmell4
In a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, telemedicine has emerged as a transformative force, transforming the way healthcare is delivered and received. Telemedicine, also known as telehealth, is a mode of healthcare delivery that leverages modern communication technology to provide medical services and consultations remotely.
The challenges and opportunities in telemedicine during COVID 19 pandemic
Project supervisors: Dr. Rosalind Silverman and Dr. Lorelei Silverman
Background A multidisciplinary team consisting of premedical and predental students, internationally trained doctors, and IT professionals will showcase the present and future of telemedicine post COVID 19 era.
Methodology Our team researched literature and surveyed telemedicine clinics in Canada to identify the usage of telemedicine, devices, advantages and disadvantages of telemedicine in 18 medical disciplines.
Results We will present new technologies and best practice in telemedicine and tele dentistry as well as the practical use in clinics across Canada, USA, and internationally. We will also demonstrate the further role of telemedicine in expanding the field, and challenges and opportunities during COVID19. In addition, we will share our survey of application of telemedicine to telepsychiatry, teleradiology, telepathology, telecardiology, tele respirology, pediatrics, women health, ophthalmology, ENT, emergency response, physiatry, gastroenterology, infertility, dermatology, oncology, palliative care, allergology, rheumatology, and plastic surgery. The advantages of telemedicine such as fast access to care, reduced cost, cutting down on commuting, travelling in bad weather, taking time off from work, need for childcare, immobile patients, remote areas, cultural taboos are also assessed. The disadvantages of telemedicine are mainly present in older population that has less exposure to technology and the concern over data security.
Conclusion In sum, using virtual health care tools and telemedicine we can shorten wait times to see a provider, reduce the risk of community infection, improve training, and expand the range of access to specialists who live further away or need to be consulted for a second opinion
WAL_HUMN1020_03_A_EN-CC.mp4Chapter 8 Telehealth and Applicat.docxcelenarouzie
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Chapter 8 Telehealth and Applications for Delivering Care at a Distance
Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild
Mitra Rocca
Vicky Elfrink Cordi
Andrea Haught
Diane Castelli
Kathleen MacMahon
Dianna Vice-Pasch
Daniel A. Nagel
Antonia Arnaert
Growth in telehealth could result in a future where access to healthcare is not limited by geographic region, time, or availability of skilled healthcare professionals.
Objectives
At the completion of this chapter the reader will be prepared to:
1.Discuss the historical milestones and leading organizations in the development of telehealth
2.Explain the two overarching types of telehealth technology interactions and provide examples of telehealth technologies for each type
3.Describe the clinical practice considerations for telehealth-delivered care for health professionals
4.Analyze operational and organizational success factors and barriers for telehealth within healthcare organizations
5.Discuss practice and policy considerations for health professionals, including competency, licensure and interstate practice, malpractice, and reimbursement for telehealth
6.Describe the use of telehealth to enable self-care in consumer informatics
7.Discuss future trends in telehealth
Key Terms
Digital literacy, 141
Telehealth, 125
Telehealth competency, 131
Telemedicine, 126
Telenursing, 126
uHealth, 141
Abstract
Rapid advances in technology development and telehealth adoption are opening new opportunities for healthcare providers to leverage these technologies in achieving improved patient outcomes. Telehealth provides access to care and the ability to export clinical expertise to those patients who require care, regardless of the patients' geographic location. This chapter presents telehealth technologies and programs as well as telehealth practice considerations such as licensure and malpractice challenges. As telehealth advances, healthcare providers will require competencies and knowledge to incorporate safe and effective clinical practice using telehealth technologies into their daily workflow.
Introduction
Rapid advances in technology development and telehealth adoption are opening new opportunities for healthcare providers to leverage these technologies in achieving improved patient outcomes. Before we discuss these technologies and outcomes, it is important to explore the definitions of telehealth-related terminology.
Telehealth encompasses a broad definition of telecommunications and information technology–enabled healthcare services and technologies. Often used interchangeably with the terms telemedicine, ehealth, or mhealth (mobile health), telehealth is “the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health, and health administration.”1 Telehealth is being used in this text to encompass all of these other terms. Telemedicine is .
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The emergence of telemedicine as a core necessity. Can a case of the flu be diagnosed over
Skype? Is it possible to learn the results
of your computed tomography
scan after midnight? Can a young mother
receive care where a trained pediatrician
can’t visit? The answer to all of these questions
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The approach has been through a striking evolution in the last decade and it is becoming an increasingly important.
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VIRTUAL HOSPITALS OF FUTURE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
1. TAMSA 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
THEME: IMPACT OF GLOBAL HEALTH IN AFRICA, ITS TIME TO
FACE THE CHALLENGES!
Sub Theme: Technology in advanced Medicine
Title: VIRTUAL HOSPITALS OF FUTURE IN DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES
Presenters:
Lutfi Abdallah
Jacqueline Kihwele
MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF
HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
(MUHAS)
4. Health for All
..some objectives for which Telemedicine has
originated.
• To make high quality healthcare available to traditionally
under privileged population - In developing countries,
there is a large rural based population separated by large
distances, which need access to regular quality medical
care. Telemedicine can enhance citizen’s equality in the
availability of various medical services and clinical health
care, despite these economic and geographic barriers.
• Save the time wasted by both providers and patients (from
long, difficult, often health-threatening journeys from one
geographic location to another to avail services on time [8]
• Reduce costs of medical care.
5. Ground realities of the Present state of
health care in developing countries:
I. Approx. 3.1 Billion live in rural area (0ut of 5.6 billion
people - 2009).
II. Bed-Population ratio 0.3 per 1000 people to 0.7 per 1000
people (2011) VS. Ideal of 1:500 people.
III. Only 1.9 – 4.1% of GDP for health (WHO recommends at
least 5%).
IV. 5 - 9% of annual family income spent towards curative
health care.
V. Doctor to patient ratio is still high (the average doctor to
patient ratio in developing countries is 1 doctor for every
250,000 patients.
VI. Specialists and super specialists located in urban areas
and their number dissatisfy the needs.
6. Advancement of Technology/ Driving forces
– Digitilazation
– Teledensity
– Trend of technology
– Internet capabilities
7. Source: Yale Journal of Medicine and Law, using Telemedicine to address
doctor shortages; accessed from
http://www.yalemedlaw.com/2013/02/using-telemedicine-to-address-
doctor-shortages/
8. Telemedicine
“…..the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by
all healthcare professionals using information and communication
technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment
and prevention of diseases and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the
continuing education of healthcare providers, all in the interest of advancing
the health of individuals and their communities” WHO 1998
10. Advantages of Telemedicine
• Doctors licensed to practice all over the Nation/country
• Maximum utilization of limited resources Saves travel,
time and money
• Enormous CME potential for GP, urban trainee and
Tele-consultant
• International grand rounds, Web casting conferences
• Motivation for computer literacy among doctors
• Reducing unnecessary referrals to specialists
• Useful in designing credits for re-certification of
doctors.
11. Why Telemedicine NOW
• Health care providers coming under increasing pressure to improve
the quality of care delivered to patients while at the same time
decreasing the cost worldwide. Telemedicine has the potential to
address some of the pressing issues facing healthcare delivery in
our country.
• As the population ages and chronic disease explodes, the
healthcare delivery system will be forced to treat larger numbers of
patients with fewer and more limited resources.
• A fundamental and comprehensive change in the management and
delivery of healthcare is crucial to get the most cost effective and
efficient use out of limited healthcare resources. Telemedicine
applications and solutions are viable options that can be leveraged
to address such pressing healthcare issues.
12. Medical Legal Aspect
• There is wide spread concern regarding confidentiality and medical
information on the web.
• There are also potential legal issues regarding this and the limitation of
the medical advice without face to face consultation or clinical
examination. All information on patient (i.e. medical record, radiographs,
audiotapes, images, and real time sensor data) is presented in a web-
browser user interface, very strict access to control is used to prevent an
authorized access to medical information.
• As an example, a patient may bring a smart card with his access key, or the
finder print may be used as a basis for the access key.
• Exposure of the patient information may lead to loss of license, big fines,
or jail
13. Conclusion
Despite the growing enthusiasm for “Telemedicine”
the concept of virtual hospital still has many
limitations to overcome. Nevertheless,
telemedicine is beginning to have an impact on
many aspects of health care in the developing
countries.
When implemented well, telemedicine may allow
the developing countries to leap frog over our
developed neighbors in successful health care
delivery.
14. • To witness a successful revolution in telemedicine, we need to bring this
array of activities together. Perhaps the slogan “Health for all by 2000”
which was forgotten towards the end of last century can still be achieved
by the year 2030 by making “The E-Medicine Revolution” happen in
developing countries. Time alone will tell whether Telemedicine is a
“forward step in a backward direction” or to paraphrase Neil Armstrong
“one small step for IT but one giant leap for Healthcare”.
15. Source: Webadmin, Telemedicine Continues to Transform
Healthcare (Part 1 of 2): Pharmaceutical Retail’s Next
Frontier
: Accessed from:
http://www.healthcareix.com/2013/05/telemedicine-
continues-to-transform-healthcare-part-1-of-2-
pharmaceutical-retail%E2%80%99s-next-frontier/
16. Thank you for Listening.
“21st century medicine, think globally, think 3D”
Editor's Notes
Out of 7 billion people, two third live in low resource developing countries where more than 50% live in rural areas which is isolated in the rest of the medical world. Lack of up to date reference materials, lack of consultation possibilities led to poor diagnosis in rural areas. Patients take a long, difficult and health threatening journeys to cities for their health care at enormous cost.
Jade
The ideal modal of health care concept was adopted in the declaration of the international conference of primary health care in Alma Ata, Kazakstan 1978. from there it became a core issue to WHO goal “Health for All.Currently in developing countries, we are unable to provide total primary health care in rural areas. Secondary and tertiary health care are not well distributed in suburban and urban areas. Incentives to specialist failed to entice specialist to practice in suburban areas. After all professional isolation would lead to mediocrity which is one step ahead from entering the Jurassic park. Health for All may be a slogan even in 2030.
Jade
For many years it was difficult to document the clinical works of the patient until when the revolution in the medical devices began e.g. X-Ray, MRI, CT-Scan, Echo-cardiography, ECG, ultrasound, otoscope and ophthalmoscope etc.More researches are done in reducing the size of medical and nonmedical devices e.g. Currently we have Portable ultrasound and ventilator etc there researches are more supported by American military.- Think of the first computer with the size of the room, have a storage capacity of 1 MB and reboot after 7 days and a tremendous change to portable, more efficient and have more capacity.Increase in the internet capabilities both wireless and cable have tremendously changed the health system in developing countries by easing transfer of data in a secured channels for consultations
People living in the remote area in Australia were using a double radio system which was powered by a dynamo, driven by a set of pedals to communicate with Royal Flying Doctors of Australia, this was how telemedicine started. Later it moved to USA. In developing countries it started very late, e.g. In China, telemedicine started in 1980 where in 1988 the video conferencing was done with German discussing about neurosugery case. Other developing countries like India, Apollo Hospical – Chennai had the same video conferencing system with Japan 2001.In our country (TANZANIA), ELCT has 20 hospital and all were linked using care2X applications as well as within the hospital – This was 2006MNH also use the same system but only with the hospital, allowing the communication between the ER, deparments, wards, labs, and Pharmacy
CME – Continuing Medical EducationGP – General Practitioners