As we know, telemedicine refers to the use of modern communication tools for the delivery of remote healthcare services. The communication tools used today in telemedicine are smaller, advanced, and far more effective than the tools that were used when telemedicine first originated.
Initially, telemedicine was meant to provide medical services to people living in remote areas. But today, for people who are living in developed and developing regions, telemedicine has become a necessity. In this article, we are going to comprehend the benefits and challenges of telemedicine. Let’s surf.
That being said, telemedicine has its own challenges that you need to consider when building a Telemedicine strategy. All patients are not equally versed in handling digital healthcare solutions. Old people may not be aware of the new-age tech devices and some patients or some situations may best be examined physically.
The chart below is a comprehensive list of the pros and cons of Telemedicine.
Telemedicine enables both patients and their healthcare providers to make a connection and get the work done without having the need to get into proximity to each other. Its applications include video medical consultations, remote monitoring, telehealth nursing, remote physical, and psychiatry therapy. The potential of Telemedicine has become a silver lining for the healthcare industry today amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Here is how the day to day physical practice may be replaced with aspects of Telemedicine.
HOW DO WE CONVENTIONALLY PROCEED | HOW DO WE TRANSMIT THE INFORMATION |
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History taking | Text |
Clinical examination | Image |
Provisional Diagnosis | Sound |
Investigation | Video |
Despite all the challenges, telemedicine is one of the most exciting concepts in Healthcare across the world. While today there seems to be a big push for telemedicine due to an emergency situations, here are some of the reasons why healthcare experts believe that telemedicine is here to stay.
Convenience: Telemedicine applications are making healthcare services more convenient. The ability to get a medical professional’s consultation instantly from the comfort of your home is the most substantial advantage of telemedicine apps.
Cost Efficiency: Compared to traditional care processes, telehealth applications are cost-effective solutions. With less infra and fewer delays, cost-effectiveness trickles down to the consumer.
Quality Patient Care: Telehealth offers patient-centered approaches that improve the timeliness of care. As we all know, it’s challenging to deliver quality patient care if there is a delay due to distance, but with the support of technology, now doctors and care service providers can offer a consistent service. Patients address their healthcare issues quickly with real-time urgent care and understand treatment options and processes within minutes.
Privacy: With the support of HIPAA, now doctors, patients, and care providers can easily manage data security. The compliance guidelines of telemedicine are present in the HIPAA Security Rule. It stipulates that:
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Telemedicine refers to providing health care services at a distance using information and communication technologies (ICT). Telemedicine involves providing some kind of health care service to a patient, such as an online consultation between a patient and a doctor, remote patient monitoring through medical devices, or consultations between two doctors to arrive at a management plan for a patient case.
The term “telehealth” is a broader umbrella term that encompasses providing health services at a distance (telemedicine) as well as other health system activities like health provider education (eLearning), research and evaluation (online questionnaires), health administration activities.
Well, we all know how telemedicine is transforming all the spaces where healthcare has impressions. These digital care areas are:
We can expect that in the coming days, doctors, patients, and service providers are going to deal with a greater relationship exchange. Health administrations will adopt all new tech revolutions to streamline the process of patient care. We need to improve conventional healthcare interactions that will grow continuously with changing health scenarios.
We believe that using mhealth will increase care awareness among doctors and patients. We will see a massive change from physical clinical visits to curing patients virtually.
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