This document provides definitions and examples of telemedicine and e-health. It defines telemedicine as the use of telecommunications technologies to provide clinical care from a distance, and e-health as using digital technologies for health services and information. Case studies are presented on using telemedicine in minor injury units, ambulance services, multidisciplinary teams, and dermatology. E-health is discussed in terms of integrating information technologies into healthcare. Issues covered include ethics, economics, and factors for success. Further information sources are listed.
eHealth as a tool to support health practitioners November 2013Rajeev Rao Eashwari
“Telemedicine begins with a vision of connecting people to people, connecting resources to needs, and connecting healthcare problems to health care solutions”
NHS Scotland Ehealth Strategy - Alan Hyslophealthcareisi
This document summarizes Scotland's approach to eHealth and strategy for a national electronic health record system. Some key points:
- Scotland has a federated health system with 14 regional health boards and over 1000 GP practices.
- The strategy focuses on incremental improvements, partnerships, and ensuring the right information is available to clinicians.
- Key early successes included a unique patient ID, online test results, and a national emergency care summary covering 99.9% of the population.
- Future areas of focus include electronic records for palliative care patients and a "key information summary" to facilitate coordinated care across providers.
The Implications of Advancing Technology on the Nursing Care of Older PeopleGuy Dewsbury
This document discusses the implications of advancing technology on nursing care for older people. It notes that technology could help address issues like fewer nurses and doctors, limited funding, and a growing older population with complex needs. However, it also flags potential challenges like cost, user accessibility, and changing work practices. The document reviews evidence on topics like electronic health records, remote monitoring, and virtual nursing. It concludes that nurses must embrace new technologies, but efforts are needed to ensure older patients can also benefit and are not disadvantaged by technological changes.
Telemedicine and its application in public healthDr.Preeti Tiwari
Telemedicine uses electronic information and telecommunications technologies to provide remote clinical healthcare and support health education. It has various applications including videoconferencing, transmitting patient images and data, remote patient monitoring, and continuing medical education. Telemedicine provides benefits like improved access to specialists for remote/rural patients, cost savings from reduced travel, and continued education for doctors. However, challenges include persuading doctors and patients to adopt it, infrastructure and connectivity issues in rural areas, the costs of technology and communications, and legal issues around licensing and liability.
1. The document discusses adopting technology-enabled care services to improve delivery of care for people with long-term conditions (LTCs).
2. It emphasizes establishing partnerships between various healthcare organizations and sectors, as well as patients and industry, to effectively implement new digital technologies.
3. Key themes that could help drive local digital roadmaps are also outlined, such as improving infrastructure, rolling out national health systems, enhancing information sharing, and ensuring technology is user-focused for both professionals and patients.
Telemedicine uses telecommunications and digital information technologies to provide remote clinical healthcare services. It began in the late 19th century with the development of telecommunications like the telegraph. Today, most people have access to basic telemedicine devices like mobile phones and computers. Telemedicine applications include remote chronic disease management, preventative care support, and post-hospitalization care. It offers benefits like increased access to care and cost savings but also faces challenges like licensing issues and technological restrictions.
E-health uses digital technologies like computers, the internet and mobile devices to facilitate health care services remotely. It allows users to communicate with health care providers via email, access medical records, research health information, and engage in real-time audio/video exchanges. Common forms of e-health include telemedicine, interactive TV/video conferencing, kiosks and mobile health apps. Telemedicine specifically involves the remote delivery of clinical services using telecommunications technology.
This document outlines a lecture on eHealth. It discusses how eHealth can support healthcare through electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, telemedicine, and standards. Examples are provided of how telemedicine is used in minor injury units in Cornwall and by NHS Direct. eHealth/eScience is described as supporting cancer diagnosis and treatment through technologies like teleconferencing, imaging delivery, data mining of patient records, and access to medical simulations. Overall the document provides an overview of existing and future applications of eHealth.
eHealth as a tool to support health practitioners November 2013Rajeev Rao Eashwari
“Telemedicine begins with a vision of connecting people to people, connecting resources to needs, and connecting healthcare problems to health care solutions”
NHS Scotland Ehealth Strategy - Alan Hyslophealthcareisi
This document summarizes Scotland's approach to eHealth and strategy for a national electronic health record system. Some key points:
- Scotland has a federated health system with 14 regional health boards and over 1000 GP practices.
- The strategy focuses on incremental improvements, partnerships, and ensuring the right information is available to clinicians.
- Key early successes included a unique patient ID, online test results, and a national emergency care summary covering 99.9% of the population.
- Future areas of focus include electronic records for palliative care patients and a "key information summary" to facilitate coordinated care across providers.
The Implications of Advancing Technology on the Nursing Care of Older PeopleGuy Dewsbury
This document discusses the implications of advancing technology on nursing care for older people. It notes that technology could help address issues like fewer nurses and doctors, limited funding, and a growing older population with complex needs. However, it also flags potential challenges like cost, user accessibility, and changing work practices. The document reviews evidence on topics like electronic health records, remote monitoring, and virtual nursing. It concludes that nurses must embrace new technologies, but efforts are needed to ensure older patients can also benefit and are not disadvantaged by technological changes.
Telemedicine and its application in public healthDr.Preeti Tiwari
Telemedicine uses electronic information and telecommunications technologies to provide remote clinical healthcare and support health education. It has various applications including videoconferencing, transmitting patient images and data, remote patient monitoring, and continuing medical education. Telemedicine provides benefits like improved access to specialists for remote/rural patients, cost savings from reduced travel, and continued education for doctors. However, challenges include persuading doctors and patients to adopt it, infrastructure and connectivity issues in rural areas, the costs of technology and communications, and legal issues around licensing and liability.
1. The document discusses adopting technology-enabled care services to improve delivery of care for people with long-term conditions (LTCs).
2. It emphasizes establishing partnerships between various healthcare organizations and sectors, as well as patients and industry, to effectively implement new digital technologies.
3. Key themes that could help drive local digital roadmaps are also outlined, such as improving infrastructure, rolling out national health systems, enhancing information sharing, and ensuring technology is user-focused for both professionals and patients.
Telemedicine uses telecommunications and digital information technologies to provide remote clinical healthcare services. It began in the late 19th century with the development of telecommunications like the telegraph. Today, most people have access to basic telemedicine devices like mobile phones and computers. Telemedicine applications include remote chronic disease management, preventative care support, and post-hospitalization care. It offers benefits like increased access to care and cost savings but also faces challenges like licensing issues and technological restrictions.
E-health uses digital technologies like computers, the internet and mobile devices to facilitate health care services remotely. It allows users to communicate with health care providers via email, access medical records, research health information, and engage in real-time audio/video exchanges. Common forms of e-health include telemedicine, interactive TV/video conferencing, kiosks and mobile health apps. Telemedicine specifically involves the remote delivery of clinical services using telecommunications technology.
This document outlines a lecture on eHealth. It discusses how eHealth can support healthcare through electronic medical records, clinical decision support systems, telemedicine, and standards. Examples are provided of how telemedicine is used in minor injury units in Cornwall and by NHS Direct. eHealth/eScience is described as supporting cancer diagnosis and treatment through technologies like teleconferencing, imaging delivery, data mining of patient records, and access to medical simulations. Overall the document provides an overview of existing and future applications of eHealth.
Health Care Panel presented to the Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task ...Ann Treacy
This document discusses broadband technologies and their applications in healthcare, including telehealth. It provides examples of how telehealth is used in different specialties like tele-ICU, telepsychiatry, and teleradiology. It also discusses the benefits of telehealth, barriers to adoption like reimbursement and infrastructure issues, and the potential return on investment for hospitals that implement telehealth programs.
Mobile and Telehealth Programs Evidence and Emerging TechnologiesP. Kenyon Crowley
Review of current evidence on telehealth and mobile health interventions effectiveness, and emerging innovations in this space, presented at executive education session.
This document discusses telehealth and telenursing. It begins by defining telehealth and describing its history. Telehealth utilizes technology to provide health services from a distance. While early uses date back centuries, major advances occurred in the last 50 years as technology improved. The document then discusses driving forces for telehealth like aging populations and provider shortages. It explores clinical applications of telehealth including transmitting images, data, and providing education. Telenursing involves using telecommunications for remote nursing care. Key roles of telenurses discussed are home telehealth, tele-intensive care, and chronic disease management. The tools, software, practice protocols and legal/ethical considerations of home telehealth are outlined. The future of more
This document discusses innovation in health and e-health. It notes that populations are aging and chronic conditions are increasing, putting demands on healthcare systems and professionals. It describes Odense University Hospital as a major Danish healthcare center that receives 10% of the country's healthcare budget. The hospital's innovation focuses on buildings, processes, and systems like infrastructure, communication platforms, shared care systems, robots, and cross-sectoral collaboration. It discusses telemedicine and using a MAST model for assessing telemedicine applications across multiple domains. The document emphasizes staying patient-focused, collaborating locally and globally, developing and testing new technologies, and ensuring recruitment and expansion of competencies to serve future hospitals.
Leveraging Telemedicine to Improve Health - 2015 Policy Prescriptions Symposium®Cedric Dark
The symposium is designed for clinicians – physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and students – and healthcare executives interested in expanding their scope of knowledge about currently popular health policy topics.
Tele-ophthalmology: the new normal in current timesObaidur Rehman
Covers telehealth and telemedicine in general. Tele-ophthalmology development in India. Practice and patterns as defined by concerned authorities. Guidelines as set up Govt of India. Current tele-ophthalmology projects in India
Digital healthcare will shape future care delivery by allowing care to occur outside hospitals through technologies that support remote care, self-management, and virtual interactions. This will lead to more integrated community and home-based care for long-term conditions. Hospitals will focus on more specialized services as routine care shifts elsewhere. Digital tools will empower patients through access to data and remote monitoring, while new types of community health hubs and an expanded workforce help support decentralized care models. However, ensuring equity, safety, and user acceptability of these new approaches will be important to avoid potential drawbacks.
Telemedicine Benefits and drawbacks 25.04.2021Shazia Iqbal
This document discusses telemedicine, defining it as the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technologies. It provides definitions of telemedicine from WHO and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The document then discusses why telemedicine is used and the types of telemedicine, including store-and-forward, interactive services, and remote patient monitoring. It describes applications of telemedicine in Saudi Arabia and the benefits to patients, doctors, and hospitals, such as increased access to care and reduced costs. Finally, it notes some potential drawbacks like increased costs and decreased human interaction.
Digital technologies like wireless sensors, genomics, EHRs, mobile apps, and big data analytics can significantly help patients but cannot replace human compassion and advocacy. These technologies can improve patient engagement, access to information, and personalized care. However, the most effective patient advocates will still be human beings who can combine technology tools with qualities like empathy, communication skills, and devotion of time to help patients navigate the healthcare system.
This is a Telemedicine report I was asked to put together for some various hospitals in Michigan looking to add this technology and was asked by HIMSS members to publish.
Connected health - Middle East M2M Forum, Dubai 23 September 2013bgann
Connected health technologies like mobile devices, cloud computing, and big data can help address global health challenges by enabling remotely delivered care, chronic disease management, and personalized care. Digital tools empower consumers to manage their health through online access to health records, appointment booking, and symptom checkers. Connected devices and mobile health apps allow people to monitor their vital signs and share health data and experiences. While connected health provides opportunities, concerns around privacy, quality assurance, and addressing cultural differences must be addressed.
This document provides an overview of interactive health communication systems and telehealth technologies. It discusses physician perspectives on adoption barriers like workflow integration and reimbursement issues. It also profiles two AHRQ grants that utilize telehealth to improve cancer care in rural areas and provide remote monitoring for heart failure patients.
Telehealth uses telecommunications technologies to deliver health services and information remotely. It aims to improve access to care while reducing costs. Telehealth modalities include videoconferencing, remote monitoring, and store-and-forward technologies. It benefits patients through improved access to specialists, providers through reduced travel, and payers through lower costs. Challenges include regulatory issues, costs, and lack of acceptance or reimbursement. As technologies advance and demand increases, telehealth is expected to become more mainstream and expand the definition of healthcare.
Telemedicine is defined as the delivery of healthcare services using telecommunications technology when distance is a factor. There are three main types: store-and-forward, remote monitoring, and interactive services. Telemedicine provides benefits to patients like reduced costs and travel, and benefits healthcare systems by improving access and reducing unnecessary visits and hospitalizations. However, there are also barriers to telemedicine like physician and patient acceptance of technology, high costs, unreliable infrastructure, lack of trained professionals, and privacy/legal concerns.
TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIESRubashkyn
The world now driving by the ICT(information and communication technologies) based services, which include innovation, several applications in industries, such as financial services, telecom and IT, media and in health care industry. The most important critical questions concerns the organizing of service innovations processes is high-tech research, service innovation and the project management research, thus there is a need for more empirical research to understand and manage ICT based service innovations. Telemedicine uses ICTs to defeat environmental barriers, and increase access to health care services. This is particularly beneficial for rural and underserved communities in developing countries, the traditionally groups suffer from lack of access to health care[1].
Telemedicine is a service in this whole process it will providing medical expertise and health services to remote, rural, and transport less area communities in primary care, and in emergency conditions with the help of telecommunications. In telemedicine are will give continuous medical monitoring for many purposes like physicians needing to early diagnosis of depression or sports persons need to monitor their condition and performance. [Baker et al. 2007; Boric-Lubecke and Lubecke 2002;Varshney 2007].
Dr. Declan Woods spoke at the National Healthcare Conference about technology and digital IT in general practice. He discussed how Caredoc, an integrated healthcare service in Ireland, has developed an award-winning electronic patient record system over 15 years. Caredoc's system allows for a seamless flow of patient data and information between general practice, out-of-hours care, treatment centers, and hospitals. It provides visibility and accuracy of patient interactions across healthcare services. The system aims to deliver the right care at the right time through clinical decision support software. However, challenges remain such as an aging population, limited resources, and a lack of interoperability between healthcare providers. Increased collaboration through integrated technology is needed to improve patient care.
Telemedicine definition
History
Types
Medical specialties using telemedicine
Benefits
Teleconsultation definition
Purposes
Teleconsultation organization
Maximising Technology and Information Solutions Through "Interoperability"Louise Sinclair
The document discusses digital priorities for improving health and social care, including creating electronic health records, analyzing population data, clinical decision support, remote care, and optimizing resources. It emphasizes standards for information sharing across systems, focusing initially on using the NHS number and improving transfers of care. Local areas will assess progress using a digital maturity index and create annual roadmaps. The priorities are aimed at joining up information to provide better, safer, and more efficient care.
This document discusses how technology can help support aging populations and keep elderly patients in their homes. It covers telehealth technologies that allow remote monitoring of health metrics as well as technologies that promote safety, wellness, and social connection. Barriers to adoption include lack of reimbursement and resistance to the medicalization of the home. Standards organizations like Continua aim to address these challenges by promoting integration and interoperability. Widespread telehealth adoption could help transform home care delivery and support aging in place.
Tameside patient conference Information Governanceamirhannan
This document discusses information governance challenges and opportunities across Greater Manchester and England. It provides an overview of the speaker's professional journey in information governance and describes initiatives like the Local Health and Care Record to improve data sharing and integrated care. Key points discussed include the need for digitally transforming healthcare, adhering to privacy and security standards, and meaningfully involving patients and citizens in the process.
Health informatics deals with acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using health information through various methods and devices, including computers, clinical guidelines, terminology, and information/communication systems. It enables electronic health records, medical decision support, and information exchange between healthcare providers and departments. Health informatics is used in many clinical and research settings, including public health, imaging, consumer health, dental care, pharmacy, bioinformatics, and veterinary medicine. Common careers in health informatics include medical coders, health information technicians, privacy officers, medical billers and collections specialists, and administrative support roles. High school courses in math, science, computers, business, and communication are helpful for preparing for careers in health informatics.
Knowledge is derived from information in the same way information is derived from data. It represents a person's range of information and involves understanding patterns that connect facts and allow for predictability. The document discusses how data is unprocessed facts while information aggregates and organizes data to make decision making easier. It also outlines a pyramid with data at the bottom, information and knowledge in the middle, and understanding and wisdom at the top.
Health Care Panel presented to the Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task ...Ann Treacy
This document discusses broadband technologies and their applications in healthcare, including telehealth. It provides examples of how telehealth is used in different specialties like tele-ICU, telepsychiatry, and teleradiology. It also discusses the benefits of telehealth, barriers to adoption like reimbursement and infrastructure issues, and the potential return on investment for hospitals that implement telehealth programs.
Mobile and Telehealth Programs Evidence and Emerging TechnologiesP. Kenyon Crowley
Review of current evidence on telehealth and mobile health interventions effectiveness, and emerging innovations in this space, presented at executive education session.
This document discusses telehealth and telenursing. It begins by defining telehealth and describing its history. Telehealth utilizes technology to provide health services from a distance. While early uses date back centuries, major advances occurred in the last 50 years as technology improved. The document then discusses driving forces for telehealth like aging populations and provider shortages. It explores clinical applications of telehealth including transmitting images, data, and providing education. Telenursing involves using telecommunications for remote nursing care. Key roles of telenurses discussed are home telehealth, tele-intensive care, and chronic disease management. The tools, software, practice protocols and legal/ethical considerations of home telehealth are outlined. The future of more
This document discusses innovation in health and e-health. It notes that populations are aging and chronic conditions are increasing, putting demands on healthcare systems and professionals. It describes Odense University Hospital as a major Danish healthcare center that receives 10% of the country's healthcare budget. The hospital's innovation focuses on buildings, processes, and systems like infrastructure, communication platforms, shared care systems, robots, and cross-sectoral collaboration. It discusses telemedicine and using a MAST model for assessing telemedicine applications across multiple domains. The document emphasizes staying patient-focused, collaborating locally and globally, developing and testing new technologies, and ensuring recruitment and expansion of competencies to serve future hospitals.
Leveraging Telemedicine to Improve Health - 2015 Policy Prescriptions Symposium®Cedric Dark
The symposium is designed for clinicians – physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and students – and healthcare executives interested in expanding their scope of knowledge about currently popular health policy topics.
Tele-ophthalmology: the new normal in current timesObaidur Rehman
Covers telehealth and telemedicine in general. Tele-ophthalmology development in India. Practice and patterns as defined by concerned authorities. Guidelines as set up Govt of India. Current tele-ophthalmology projects in India
Digital healthcare will shape future care delivery by allowing care to occur outside hospitals through technologies that support remote care, self-management, and virtual interactions. This will lead to more integrated community and home-based care for long-term conditions. Hospitals will focus on more specialized services as routine care shifts elsewhere. Digital tools will empower patients through access to data and remote monitoring, while new types of community health hubs and an expanded workforce help support decentralized care models. However, ensuring equity, safety, and user acceptability of these new approaches will be important to avoid potential drawbacks.
Telemedicine Benefits and drawbacks 25.04.2021Shazia Iqbal
This document discusses telemedicine, defining it as the remote delivery of healthcare services using information and communication technologies. It provides definitions of telemedicine from WHO and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The document then discusses why telemedicine is used and the types of telemedicine, including store-and-forward, interactive services, and remote patient monitoring. It describes applications of telemedicine in Saudi Arabia and the benefits to patients, doctors, and hospitals, such as increased access to care and reduced costs. Finally, it notes some potential drawbacks like increased costs and decreased human interaction.
Digital technologies like wireless sensors, genomics, EHRs, mobile apps, and big data analytics can significantly help patients but cannot replace human compassion and advocacy. These technologies can improve patient engagement, access to information, and personalized care. However, the most effective patient advocates will still be human beings who can combine technology tools with qualities like empathy, communication skills, and devotion of time to help patients navigate the healthcare system.
This is a Telemedicine report I was asked to put together for some various hospitals in Michigan looking to add this technology and was asked by HIMSS members to publish.
Connected health - Middle East M2M Forum, Dubai 23 September 2013bgann
Connected health technologies like mobile devices, cloud computing, and big data can help address global health challenges by enabling remotely delivered care, chronic disease management, and personalized care. Digital tools empower consumers to manage their health through online access to health records, appointment booking, and symptom checkers. Connected devices and mobile health apps allow people to monitor their vital signs and share health data and experiences. While connected health provides opportunities, concerns around privacy, quality assurance, and addressing cultural differences must be addressed.
This document provides an overview of interactive health communication systems and telehealth technologies. It discusses physician perspectives on adoption barriers like workflow integration and reimbursement issues. It also profiles two AHRQ grants that utilize telehealth to improve cancer care in rural areas and provide remote monitoring for heart failure patients.
Telehealth uses telecommunications technologies to deliver health services and information remotely. It aims to improve access to care while reducing costs. Telehealth modalities include videoconferencing, remote monitoring, and store-and-forward technologies. It benefits patients through improved access to specialists, providers through reduced travel, and payers through lower costs. Challenges include regulatory issues, costs, and lack of acceptance or reimbursement. As technologies advance and demand increases, telehealth is expected to become more mainstream and expand the definition of healthcare.
Telemedicine is defined as the delivery of healthcare services using telecommunications technology when distance is a factor. There are three main types: store-and-forward, remote monitoring, and interactive services. Telemedicine provides benefits to patients like reduced costs and travel, and benefits healthcare systems by improving access and reducing unnecessary visits and hospitalizations. However, there are also barriers to telemedicine like physician and patient acceptance of technology, high costs, unreliable infrastructure, lack of trained professionals, and privacy/legal concerns.
TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIESRubashkyn
The world now driving by the ICT(information and communication technologies) based services, which include innovation, several applications in industries, such as financial services, telecom and IT, media and in health care industry. The most important critical questions concerns the organizing of service innovations processes is high-tech research, service innovation and the project management research, thus there is a need for more empirical research to understand and manage ICT based service innovations. Telemedicine uses ICTs to defeat environmental barriers, and increase access to health care services. This is particularly beneficial for rural and underserved communities in developing countries, the traditionally groups suffer from lack of access to health care[1].
Telemedicine is a service in this whole process it will providing medical expertise and health services to remote, rural, and transport less area communities in primary care, and in emergency conditions with the help of telecommunications. In telemedicine are will give continuous medical monitoring for many purposes like physicians needing to early diagnosis of depression or sports persons need to monitor their condition and performance. [Baker et al. 2007; Boric-Lubecke and Lubecke 2002;Varshney 2007].
Dr. Declan Woods spoke at the National Healthcare Conference about technology and digital IT in general practice. He discussed how Caredoc, an integrated healthcare service in Ireland, has developed an award-winning electronic patient record system over 15 years. Caredoc's system allows for a seamless flow of patient data and information between general practice, out-of-hours care, treatment centers, and hospitals. It provides visibility and accuracy of patient interactions across healthcare services. The system aims to deliver the right care at the right time through clinical decision support software. However, challenges remain such as an aging population, limited resources, and a lack of interoperability between healthcare providers. Increased collaboration through integrated technology is needed to improve patient care.
Telemedicine definition
History
Types
Medical specialties using telemedicine
Benefits
Teleconsultation definition
Purposes
Teleconsultation organization
Maximising Technology and Information Solutions Through "Interoperability"Louise Sinclair
The document discusses digital priorities for improving health and social care, including creating electronic health records, analyzing population data, clinical decision support, remote care, and optimizing resources. It emphasizes standards for information sharing across systems, focusing initially on using the NHS number and improving transfers of care. Local areas will assess progress using a digital maturity index and create annual roadmaps. The priorities are aimed at joining up information to provide better, safer, and more efficient care.
This document discusses how technology can help support aging populations and keep elderly patients in their homes. It covers telehealth technologies that allow remote monitoring of health metrics as well as technologies that promote safety, wellness, and social connection. Barriers to adoption include lack of reimbursement and resistance to the medicalization of the home. Standards organizations like Continua aim to address these challenges by promoting integration and interoperability. Widespread telehealth adoption could help transform home care delivery and support aging in place.
Tameside patient conference Information Governanceamirhannan
This document discusses information governance challenges and opportunities across Greater Manchester and England. It provides an overview of the speaker's professional journey in information governance and describes initiatives like the Local Health and Care Record to improve data sharing and integrated care. Key points discussed include the need for digitally transforming healthcare, adhering to privacy and security standards, and meaningfully involving patients and citizens in the process.
Health informatics deals with acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using health information through various methods and devices, including computers, clinical guidelines, terminology, and information/communication systems. It enables electronic health records, medical decision support, and information exchange between healthcare providers and departments. Health informatics is used in many clinical and research settings, including public health, imaging, consumer health, dental care, pharmacy, bioinformatics, and veterinary medicine. Common careers in health informatics include medical coders, health information technicians, privacy officers, medical billers and collections specialists, and administrative support roles. High school courses in math, science, computers, business, and communication are helpful for preparing for careers in health informatics.
Knowledge is derived from information in the same way information is derived from data. It represents a person's range of information and involves understanding patterns that connect facts and allow for predictability. The document discusses how data is unprocessed facts while information aggregates and organizes data to make decision making easier. It also outlines a pyramid with data at the bottom, information and knowledge in the middle, and understanding and wisdom at the top.
This document discusses connected health technologies including telemedicine, telehealth, e-referrals, e-medicine, and social media. Telemedicine uses technology to remotely deliver healthcare services to patients. Telehealth allows patients to access health education and support through online resources. E-referrals facilitate communication between primary care doctors and specialists. E-medicine involves delivering health information and services online. Social media enables healthcare information sharing and support. Research shows these technologies can increase access, enhance care coordination, and reduce costs.
This document discusses considerations for implementing a telehealth system, including non-technical factors like room size and design, lighting, and telephone access. It also outlines the various technology layers needed, including hardware, telecommunication software, and sufficient network bandwidth. Finally, it explores potential educational applications of telehealth like interprofessional education, clinical check-ins of students, and enabling health services in remote areas.
This document discusses the history and current state of telemedicine. It notes that there are several terms used including telemedicine, telehealth, e-health, and m-health. Telemedicine focuses on patient care using remote services, while health information technology focuses on support systems. Drivers for telemedicine include rising healthcare costs, provider shortages, and global health concerns. Early telemedicine examples include projects in 1967 and 1975. More recent developments include large networks, outsourced specialty services, online/mobile services, and new technologies like robotics. Key adoption challenges are resistance to change and inconsistent integration pathways. The American Telemedicine Association addresses these challenges through practice guidelines, collaborations, and other activities.
This document discusses key aspects of identifying and prioritizing research problems, including selecting a research topic and writing a problem statement. It provides criteria for selecting a research topic, such as relevance, avoidance of duplication, and feasibility. A good problem statement identifies a gap in understanding or weakness in existing data, explains the significance of this lack, and describes how the research will contribute new knowledge and why it matters. The problem statement should be concise, around one page, and define the problem without findings or data, proposing a way to systematically research a solution.
This document discusses information systems ethics, computer crime, and security. It covers topics such as privacy, accuracy and ownership of information, types of computer crimes like hacking and software piracy, computer viruses, and security measures to protect computers and data including encryption, firewalls, and antivirus software. Computer ethics aims to establish standards for appropriate use of information systems regarding issues of privacy, information sharing, and accessibility.
This document provides an introduction to health informatics, including definitions of key terms, subdomains, and applications. It defines health informatics as the intersection of information science, computer science, and healthcare. The document outlines several subdomains including clinical informatics, medical informatics, nursing informatics, and bioinformatics. It also discusses some benefits and barriers to health information technology adoption, highlighting how tools like electronic health records and data warehouses can help improve decision making by generating and sharing health information.
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Digital India will need a big trained army of Health Informatics educated & trained manpower in India.
Presently, generalist IT manpower does most of the work in the healthcare industry in India. Academic Health Informatics education is not readily available at school & health university level or IT education institutions in India.
We look into the evolution of health informatics and its applications in the healthcare industry.
HIMMS TIGER resources are available to assist Health Informatics education.
Indian Health universities, IT Education institutions, and the healthcare industry must proactively collaborate to start health informatics courses on a big scale. An advocacy push from various stakeholders is also needed for this goal.
Health informatics has huge employment potential and provides a big business opportunity for the healthcare industry. A big pool of trained health informatics manpower can lead to product & service innovations on a global scale in India.
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The Ultimate Guide in Setting Up Market Research System in Health-TechGokul Rangarajan
How to effectively start market research in the health tech industry by defining objectives, crafting problem statements, selecting methods, identifying data collection sources, and setting clear timelines. This guide covers all the preliminary steps needed to lay a strong foundation for your research.
"Market Research it too text-booky, I am in the market for a decade, I am living research book" this is what the founder I met on the event claimed, few of my colleagues rolled their eyes. Its true that one cannot over look the real life experience, but one cannot out beat structured gold mine of market research.
Many 0 to 1 startup founders often overlook market research, but this critical step can make or break a venture, especially in health tech.
But Why do they skip it?
Limited resources—time, money, and manpower—are common culprits.
"In fact, a survey by CB Insights found that 42% of startups fail due to no market need, which is like building a spaceship to Mars only to realise you forgot the fuel."
Sudharsan Srinivasan
Operational Partner Pitchworks VC Studio
Overconfidence in their product’s success leads founders to assume it will naturally find its market, especially in health tech where patient needs, entire system issues and regulatory requirements are as complex as trying to perform brain surgery with a butter knife. Additionally, the pressure to launch quickly and the belief in their own intuition further contribute to this oversight. Yet, thorough market research in health tech could be the key to transforming a startup's vision into a life-saving reality, instead of a medical mishap waiting to happen.
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Innovaccer, founded by Abhinav Shashank in 2014, focuses on improving healthcare delivery through data-driven insights and interoperability solutions. Before launching their platform, Innovaccer conducted extensive market research to understand the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and the potential for innovation in healthcare IT.
Identifying Pain Points: Innovaccer surveyed healthcare providers to understand their difficulties with data integration, care coordination, and patient engagement. They found widespread frustration with siloed systems and inefficient workflows.
Competitive Analysis: Analyzed competitors offering similar solutions in healthcare analytics and interoperability. Identified gaps in comprehensive data aggregation, real-time analytics, and actionable insights.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensured their platform complied with HIPAA and other healthcare data privacy regulations. This compliance was crucial to gaining trust from healthcare providers wary of data security issues.
Customer Validation: Conducted pilot programs with several healthcare organizations to validate the platform's effectiveness in improving care outcomes and operational efficiency. Gathered feedback to refine features and user interface.
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4. Raw definitions
• Telemedicine:
– medicine at a distance
• cf television
• E-health:
– health services
delivered electronically
• E-commerce
5. No standard definition
• "To define telemedicine is to have
something in common with Humpty
Dumpty — that is, by making a word to
mean whatever you want it to mean."
[BJHC&IM]
• Google search throws up 13 defns
– http://www.google.com/search?q=define:
Telemedicine
6. US government
• "The use of medical information
exchanged from one site to another using
electronic communications for the health
and education of patients or providers and
to improve patient care."
– http://cms.hhs.gov/glossary/default.asp (Dept
of Health and Human Services)
7. ATA one(s)
• "the use of medical information exchanged from one site
to another via electronic communications for the health
and education of the patient or health care provider and
for the purpose of improving and extending the
availability of patient care"
– http://www2.umdnj.edu/omcweb/1998/telemedicine.htm
• "access to medical care for consumers and health
professionals via telecommunications technology"
– http://www.atmeda.org/about/aboutata.htm
• e-health is the "use of the Internet for healthcare"
8. JMIR
• "e-health is an emerging field in the
intersection of medical informatics, public
health and business, referring to health
services and information delivered or
enhanced through the Internet and related
technologies"
9. e-health 2002 conference
• e-health is "the leveraging of the information and
communication technology (ICT) to connect
provider and patients and governments; to
educate and inform health care professionals,
managers and consumers; to stimulate
innovation in care delivery and health system
management; and, to improve our health care
system"
10. TEIS one
• Starting point:
– "The use of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) to deliver healthcare at a
distance"
11. TEIS scope
• Telemedicine and e-health are terms that are
applied to the use of Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) in medicine,
health and social care delivery
– As such, the subject divides into two main areas:
• improvements to existing services in terms of their efficiency
and effectiveness - for example, pathology, radiology,
education and training, and Electronic Patient
• new service delivery development - for example,
teledermatology, teleophthalmology.
12. TEIS scope
• For our purposes, we define our area of
interest as those applications that:
– use information and communication
technology …
– … to deliver health and/or social care in new
ways …
– … on a person to person basis …
– … where those people are physically apart
13. Types of telemedicine
CJ Fitch, JS Briggs, RA Beresford, "System
issues for telemedicine systems", Health
Informatics Journal, vol. 7, no. 3/4,
September/December 2001, pp222-230
14. Characteristics of tm systems
• Interaction style
• Data types
• Equipment
• Action
• Patient numbers
• Duration
15. Interaction style
• Real-time (synchronous)
– Participants all active at the
same time
– Use any synchronous
technology (e.g. phone)
– Most commonly: video
conferencing
– Less often but becoming
more common: vital signs
monitoring
– May need high bandwidth
• Store-and-forward
(asynchronous)
– Participants do not need to
be active at the same time
– Use any structured form of
message passing
– Most commonly: email
– Less often but becoming
more common: systems
exchanging messages
– May not need high
bandwidth
17. Equipment
• General purpose
– Off the shelf PCs
• Specialist
– Electronic
stethoscopes
– Image capture
equipment
– Image display
equipment (possibly)
18. Action
• Intervention
– Direct influence on
patient treatment
• Advice
– Indirect influence
– Final decision made
by intermediate party
19. Patient numbers
• One patient at a time • Multiple patients
– e.g. where a number
of patient cases are
considered at the
same time
20. Duration
• Timespan over which communication sessions
take place
– single interaction
– single episode of care (multiple interactions over
same problem)
– long-term (multiple episodes)
21. Categories of telemedicine
HCP Patient HCP HCP
CHARACTERISTICS: TYPE A TYPE B TYPE C TYPE D TYPE E TYPE F
Interaction Style Real-Time Real-Time Store/Fwd Store/Fwd Real-Time Store/Fwd
Data Types Multiple Multiple Data Multiple Multiple Data
Equipment Special Special Special General Special General
Action Direct Indirect Direct Indirect Direct Indirect
Number of
Patients
1 >1 1 >1 >1 1
Duration Short Term Long Term Short Term Long Term Short Term Short Term
LABEL tele-
medicine
tele-care tele-
monitoring
tele-health tele-review tele-referral
22. Case study: MIU
• Minor Injury Units:
– replacing "unviable" accident & emergency
departments
– nurse led
– deal with "straight-forward" problems
• Linked to central A&E department by video link
to provide expert backup
• Examples:
– Cornwall
– Portsmouth/Gosport
25. Case study - ambulance links
• ECG, etc. links from ambulance to hospital
• Expert backup for paramedics
• Reducing "call to needle" time for rural heart
attack patients
– Dundee study reduced average time from 125 to 52
minutes [Pedley et al; BMJ 2003]
• Also, advance warning to A&E staff of details of
incoming cases
27. Case study - MDTs
• Multi-disciplinary teams (e.g. in cancer
care) need to discuss patient cases
• Travel costs (i.e. time) prohibitive
• Video-conference links allow staff to meet
at more frequent intervals
29. Case study - teledermatology
• Overload on specialist dermatologists - long
waiting lists for referrals
• tds provides commercial service
– specially trained nurses take digital photos
– specialist software routes to consultant
dermatologists (anywhere in UK) for diagnosis
– consultant can work from home
• tds replaces local consultant but not totally
30. tds sites
• North Manchester
– reduced waiting list from 18 months to 17 days in 6
weeks
• Medway
– dealt with backlog of 3000 patients in 15 weeks
• Expanding into Essex, Hertfordshire and Texas
• http://www.tds-telemed.com/
31. Case study - WorldCare
• Consortium of 4 big American hospitals
• Provide "second opinion" service
worldwide (20 countries)
– tele-radiology
– tele-pathology
– patient management consultation
• Local physician remains responsible
• http://www.worldcare.com/
32. Case study - NHS Direct
• Biggest telemedicine project in the world
• Mainly telephone service
• Expanding to:
– web
• online diagnosis for common conditions
• health encyclopaedia
• my NHS healthspace (personal info portal): news, reminders,
knowledge
– digital TV
• http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/
36. The banking metaphor
• Most transactions carried
out by the customer
• Centralisation of
specialist services
• Decentralisation of non-
specialist services
– including at home
• Services become
"commodities"
• Is there a need for
specialist equipment?
37. Integration of IT
into Business Sectors
Integration
of
IT
IT as a gadget
Trojan horse: networks, …
Full Integration of IT into Business (Organisational, Legal) Re-engineering of
the system
1980 1990 2000 Jean-Claude Healy
May 2000
(Banks) (Health…)
Manufacturing Business Services Public Services
39. e-health blueprint - Malaysia
• Four Flagship Applications
– Tele-Consultation
– Tele-Continuing Medical Education for Health
Professionals
– Mass Customised Personalised Information
and Education
– Lifetime Health Plan
41. e-health - Pusan, S Korea
• Medical Tourism
– 2 hours by air for 2 billion people
• 1% with disposable income = 20 million
– Cardiac - Cancer - Mental Health
– Costs can be competitive
– Popular tourist resort for families
43. Medico-legal/ethical issues
• Who is (legally) responsible for the patient's
treatment?
• What country's laws apply?
• Where is the clinician licensed to practice?
• Can a correct diagnosis be made by
telemedicine?
• Stanberry B. The Legal and Ethical Aspects of
Telemedicine. Royal Society of Medicine Books,
1998.
44. Economics of telemedicine
• Infrastructure (network) costs
– getting cheaper
• Equipment costs
– getting smaller and cheaper
• People costs
– access to expertise
– travel by healthcare professionals
– building costs
45. Economics 2
What else to include?
• Patient costs
– is this the reason
business cases fail?
• Social costs
– cost to society of being
ill
– environmental cost of
travel
46. What makes tm a success?
• Why has telemedicine caught on in some
disciplines and some places, but not in others?
– high-level support
– fortune: right-time, right-place
– mature technology
– evangelists
• Do implementers of tele-X learn from:
– the X literature?
– the telemedicine literature?
48. TEIS
• UK Telemedicine and E-health Information
Service
• http://www.teis.port.ac.uk
• http://www.teis.nhs.uk
• Over 2000 records covering:
– telemedicine/e-health activities (>220)
– organisations
– people
– publications
– equipment
50. CEW
• Confederation of e-health websites (Q)
• http://www.teis.port.ac.uk/orgs/cew/
• Other organisations include:
– UK E-health Association
– Royal Society of Medicine
– IHM/ASSIST
– Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine
– EHTEL
51. Journals
• Telemedicine:
– Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare
– IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine
– Telemedicine Journal and e-Health
– Telehealth Practice Report
• Health informatics more generally
– Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine
– Health Informatics Journal
– Journal of Medical Internet Research
52. The end
• jim.briggs@port.ac.uk
• Healthcare Computing Group,
University of Portsmouth
• http://www.disco.port.ac.uk/hcc/
• http://www.teis.port.ac.uk/