This document discusses telemedicine, which is the delivery of healthcare via electronic services. It notes that patients, doctors, and insurance companies benefit from telemedicine. Patients find it more convenient than visiting a healthcare facility. Doctors can monitor remote patients and save time on cancellations. Insurance companies can process claims faster. The document outlines how telemedicine works from the patient's perspective and its benefits, such as improved access to care and cost efficiency. Potential challenges are also presented, such as electronic glitches, physician resistance, and inadequate assessment or training. Federal guidelines and advocacy groups help ensure telemedicine is safe and effective for patients.
Patient Engagement is growing in importance as consumer expectations of healthcare providers change and as portals and other technologies improve. Early studies show affects on outcomes for patient engagement technologies
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The National Healthcare Expo 2019 Conference was held in late November in Milton Keynes. In my presentation in the eHealth Track (presentation and video links included in this article), I outlined 3 points to think about when looking at the future of Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine.
The digital technologies which will have the biggest impact on global health will not have been designed by or for medical professionals
Consumer technologies, sometime referred to as “general” technologies are being applied across almost all sectors of business and society for purposes which were not originally envisaged or intended. The health sector is a good example in which all of the technologies shown below are now being applied for health and well-being :-
• Smartphones
• Fitness Trackers
• Whatsapp and WeChat
• Virtual Reality Headsets
• Panoramic Cameras
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sensors
With the possible exception of fitness trackers, none of these technologies were developed by or for medical professionals. There are some profound implications, not only for the future of healthcare but also for the roles and responsibilities of health professionals and citizens. The graph below shows how digital technologies for health are shifting from expensive, stand-alone, proprietary technologies to smart, connected, consumer technologies.
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Digital Health Applications and Hospitals of the FutureDavid Wortley
The National Healthcare Expo 2019 Conference was held in late November in Milton Keynes. In my presentation in the eHealth Track (presentation and video links included in this article), I outlined 3 points to think about when looking at the future of Digital Technologies in Healthcare and Medicine.
The digital technologies which will have the biggest impact on global health will not have been designed by or for medical professionals
Consumer technologies, sometime referred to as “general” technologies are being applied across almost all sectors of business and society for purposes which were not originally envisaged or intended. The health sector is a good example in which all of the technologies shown below are now being applied for health and well-being :-
• Smartphones
• Fitness Trackers
• Whatsapp and WeChat
• Virtual Reality Headsets
• Panoramic Cameras
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sensors
With the possible exception of fitness trackers, none of these technologies were developed by or for medical professionals. There are some profound implications, not only for the future of healthcare but also for the roles and responsibilities of health professionals and citizens. The graph below shows how digital technologies for health are shifting from expensive, stand-alone, proprietary technologies to smart, connected, consumer technologies.
5 Business Strategies to Grow Your Telehealth EnterpriseVSee
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Patient Engagement Strategies for Post COVID Success - Chris Nicholson | mPul...VSee
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HXR 2016: Improving Insurance Member Experiences -Janna Kimel, CambiaHxRefactored
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Within digital health, mHealth encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and health information.
Telemedicine is an upcoming field in health science arising out of the effective fusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with Medical Science having enormous potential in meeting the challenges of healthcare delivery to rural and remote areas .
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The Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health (LACDMH) is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States, directly operating 85+ programs and contracting with close to 1,000 organizations and individual practitioners. It’s goal is to reach 1.2M of its 10M residents who are in need of mental health services.
m-Health: Engaging Patients at Every TouchpointCognizant
Today, people want fast, easy and secure access to their health records, from wherever they may be and from whatever device they choose. Electronic health records (EHR) can alleviate this issue, and encourage proactive, preventive care, all within a robust, integrated, interoperable, and inclusive health system that serves the best interests of patients, physician practices, hospitals, public health, and the population at large.
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Through new telehealth technologies and increased data analysis physicians are gaining insights into patients like never before, allowing them to facilitate early interventions, improve adherence, and reduce readmission rates -- not to mention at a price more affordable than ever. The companies you’ll hear from in this session are using a healthy and innovative mix of data, educational tools, sensors, and more to improve patient outcomes.
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Google gets over one billion health-related searches a day. Now is the time to leverage patients’ growing expectations for telehealth options to engage more deeply with them. Join our guest CEO of mPulse Mobile, Chris Nicholson and learn about effective patient engagement strategies you can put in place to create highly personalized healthcare experiences that drive patient outcomes--especially for the elderly and underserved populations.
Provided to you by: https://vsee.com
HXR 2016: Improving Insurance Member Experiences -Janna Kimel, CambiaHxRefactored
This section of the agenda will feature leaders in innovation, customer experience, and design within the health insurance space. Each panelist will present the current state of experience at their organization, what successes they have seen, what situations they have learned from, and what their challenges and obstacles are, and where they would like to see things head in the future. Then Amy Cueva will guide the group in a discussion around strategy, measurement, culture change, and other important topics relevant to delivering phenomenal experiences.
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To make remote monitoring devices interoperable, we must examine a variety of use cases and the current evidence of their effectiveness. The presentation is from the January 2020 IHE Connectathon in Cleveland, Oho.
Virtual medicine is a controversial topic. It unburdens the staff, makes the healthcare services more accessible, but at the same time, it’s often perceived as the “medicine for the poor”. Learn how telemedicine is doing in the US in our new white paper.
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mHealth – also known as mobile health - refers to the practice of medicine and public health supported by mobile devices such as mobile phones, tablets, personal digital assistants and the wireless infrastructure.
Within digital health, mHealth encompasses all applications of telecommunications and multimedia technologies for the delivery of healthcare and health information.
Telemedicine is an upcoming field in health science arising out of the effective fusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with Medical Science having enormous potential in meeting the challenges of healthcare delivery to rural and remote areas .
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Telemedicine presentation delivered at the conference sponsored by HEALTHePRACTICES, ICanNY and Windstream Communications entitled Healthcare Technology and the Networks Which Make it Happen.
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only the tip of the ice berg. India being a Hub of IT, there is very good scope for further growth
of telemedicine, with support of greater technology, standardization and regulations.
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Government, hospitals, Technology providers, Support staff, Educational & Research Institutes, Insurance, Financiers and Patients
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UMUC Family Clinic Case Study
In 1980, the UMUC Family Clinic was opened in a growing family area near UMUC, Maryland, by Dr. Tom
Martin, a University of Maryland graduate after he retired from the US Navy. It is a small internal
medicine medical practice. Dr. Martin has been the owner and manager of the medical practice. He has
two nurses, Vivian and Manuella, to help him. Usually, one day nurse takes care of the front desk while
the other nurse assists the doctor during the patient visits. They rotate duties each day. Front desk
duties include all administrative work from answering the phone, scheduling appointments, taking
prescription refill requests, billing, faxing, etc. So if on Monday Vivian is helping the doctor, then it is
Manuella who takes care of the front desk and all office work. The two nurses are constantly busy and
running around and patients are now accustomed to a minimum 1-2 hour wait before being seen. And if
one nurse is absent, the situation is even worse in the clinic. The clinic has 3 examination rooms so the
owner is now looking into bringing a new physician or nurse practitioner on board. This would help him
grow his practice, provide better service to his patients, and maybe reduce the patients’ waiting time. Dr.
Martin knows that this will increase the admin overhead and the 2 nurses will not be able to manage any
additional admin work. He faces several challenges and cannot afford to hire any additional staff for
admin so the owner has to optimize his admin and clinical operations. The practice is barely covering the
expenses and salaries at the moment.
Dr. Martin’s practice operation is all paper-based with paper medical records filling his front desk shelves.
The only software the doctor has on his front office computer is an appointment scheduling software.
Even billing insurance companies is done in a quasi-manual way. For billing insurance, the front office
nurse has to fax all the needed documentation to a
third party medical billing company at the end of the
day. The medical billing company then submits the claim to the insurance company and bills the patient.
The clinic checks the status of the claims by logging into the medical billing system, through a login that
the medical billing company has provided the clinic to access its account. There is no billing software
installed at the practice, but the nurses open Internet Explorer to the URL of the medical billing company
and then use the login provided by the third party medical billing company. Of course, the medical billing
company takes a percentage of the amount that the clinic is reimbursed by the insurance. The medical
practice does not have a Web site, and essentially still operates the same as it did in 1980.
One problem that you notice immediately is that there is no quick way to check patients in and if the
nurse i ...
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.
3. Who is using Telemedicine
Patients like using
telemedicine because it is
more convenient for them.
Telemedicine also makes it
easier to have a regular
checkup, especially for
those who have a hard time
getting out of bed or
dressing themselves. It also
can help the patient save on
the cost of having an in
home nurse to do these
regular checkups.
Patients
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Doctors
tInsurance companies use
telemedicine to process
claims in a faster time. They
also benefit from the cost
efficiency in that the total
amount of insurance
payouts are less due to
more accurate claims being
submitted more quickly,
which can lead to a more
efficient processing the first
time the claim is done.
Insurance companies
Doctors are finding
telemedicine to be cost
effiecient in multiple ways.
Some of which are saving
time on canceled
appointments, having easier
monitoring of remote
patients, and by getting
faster results on tests.
Studies from UPMC Health
plan done in 2012, show
that facilities who use
telemedicine programs
have seen as much as a
160% return on all of their
investments compared to
facilities that do not use the
program
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4. How it works
To you the patient.
This shows how healthcare can be brought to the patient versus the patient
going to the healthcare facility. It also demonstrates how different medical
devices can be monitored through the use of telemedicine capabilities.
Doctor
Medical site
Network
5. What are the benefits
of Telemedicine?
Improved Healthcare Access
Brings convenience to both the health professional and
the patient
Cost efficient
Ability to monitor patients from their home
Improved quality of healthcare
Multiple specialists can meet at one consultation for
efficiency
Faster communication between medical sites and
insurance companies
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6. Why Telemedicine is not more popular
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This is a common occurrence with today’s technology due to insufficient connections, weather,
and remote locations. Also, computers are only as good as they are programmed to be, so it may
experience glitches if a computer program or product is not installed properly. Usually electronic
glitches will be experienced on the patient’s end as doctors will use the telemedicine network.
Electronic Glitches
There has been somewhat of a struggle to get physicians to realize the benefits that telemedicine
can bring them. They have also rejected the costly venture to updating to telemedicine systems.
Although, in more recent years this is piquing more doctors interest due to the ability to meet with
chronically ill patients and being able to reach a wider base of patients in a faster time which gives
them more business.
Physician resistance
Even though the use of telemedicine is a great way to provide faster care, it can also be
underassessed by the patient and the doctor. In some cases certain non-verbal cues can be missed,
and their is the possibility of misdiagnosing the patient since the health professional can not physically
touch them. This will have to be taken into consideration when doing any video or phone consultation.
Also, all systems need training, it can be hard for the specialist to understand how to relay the
information back to the patient or to use the equipment to do the appointment. The patient would have
to understand what buttons to press to activate the system on their side.
3 Inadequate assessment or training
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7. Is Telemedicine safe for me to use?
There are many human advocacy groups
and not for profit agencies such as
Affiliated workers association that conduct
studies to ensure they are meeting the
needs and upholding their medical duties.
Most recently Affiliated workers
association did a study and found that
more than 70% of consultations can be
completed over the phone and found that
ones that have been done have been no
less effective than those done in the office.
Human advocacy groups
Telemedicine practices are governed
under the same guidelines as any
healthcare facility. CMS also oversees
and makes any requirements that need to
be followed and makes sure doctors do
not go outside of their practice. Doctors
are still required to uphold their integrity
and adhere to all privacy standards for
EHRs regulated and mandated by HIPAA.
Telemedicine is closely allied with HIT
standards but differentiates in that they
provide service and do not just deal with
the medical records.
Federal Guidelines
9. http://www.americantelemed.org/about-telemedicine/what-is-telemedicine
Association, The American Tele health, (2012)
http://www.medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/By-Topics/Delivery-
Medicaid.Gov
Results from a patient-centered Medical Home Pilot AT UPMC Health Plan
Cynthia Napier Rosenberg, Pamela Peele, Donna Keyser, and Sandra McAnallen
Health Affairs November 2012 31:112423-2431; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2011.1002
Integrated Tele health and Care Management Program for Medicare Beneficiaries with Chronic Disease linked to savings
Laurence C. Baker, Scott J. Johnson, Dendy Macaulay, and Howard Birnbaum Health
Affairs September 2011 30:91689-1697; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0216`
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