For example, many of the homebound are elderly people living in rural areas. (Bower, 1998) B
¶ … Technologies Involved in Telemedicine and Its Role in Future Medicine TELEMEDICINE Issues in Telemedicine The Institute of Telemedicine defined telemedicine as the "use of electronic information and communications technologies to provide and support health care when distance separates the participants." (Field, 1996
Malpractice. One of the impediments to the growth of telemedicine applications is liability and malpractice (Granade, 1995)
Benefits Telemarketing benefits are as follows: 1): Telemedicine can provide and improve access to health care in previously un-served or under-served areas; 2) Telemedicine allows the consultation to take place among the referring physician, the consulting physician, the patient, and the patient's family through interactive video with critical information of the patient available online; and 3) The travel cost of the patients for specialty care, the travel cost for health care professionals for continuing education or consultation, the personnel / equipment cost for not having to keep specialty care facility in rural hospitals, and other costs can be either eliminated or reduced. (Grisby & Sanders, 1998) Patients 1
What do you see as the most likely barriers to the success of telemedicine in the areas of radiology, behavioral health and intensive care? Which of these areas do you think would be the easiest into telemedicine and which is hardest? Radiology service is known for its considerable use of telemedicine where scores of images are read. Digital images are distributed to experts through broadband networks (Gullo, 2011)
The main objective of telemedicine is to improve health upshots, overcome geographical barriers through use of ICT. Telemedicine reduces the variability of diagnoses besides enhancing clinical management and provision of health care services (Latifi, 2004)
The organization employs 1600 personnel among them 1250 full-time employees. The hospital has a 225 medical staff and an operating budget of over 130 million dollars (Wager & Glaser, 2009)
com/article/1130993-overview).Thearticle provides a definition of teledermatology, and an assessment of its efficacy and applicability to different situations and practices: "teledermatology is best defined as the practice of dermatology using available communication and information technology" (Pak & Berg 2008)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) played a critical role in the development of telemedicine as early as the 1960s. "NASA built telemedicine technology into early spacecraft and spacesuits to monitor astronauts' physiological parameters" (Allan, 2006, par
5). Today, thanks to telemedicine, a specialist at a North Carolina University Hospital can "diagnose a rural patient's hairline spinal fracture at a distance, using telemedicine video imaging," without the need to physically transport the patient at great risk to a specialist in a far-off city (Welsh 2004, par
" (Doukas, Maglogiannis and Kormentzas, 2006) The work of Kodandaram (2009) entitled: "Telemedicine: Healthcare for the Future" states that many countries including the country of India are short of 600,000 doctors, 1 million nurses, and 200,000 dental surgeons to achieve 1:10,000 doctor-patient ratio." (Kodandaram, 2009) It is reported that 72% of India's population still live in rural locations, 75% are dispensaries, and 60% of hospitals are located in urban areas
Figure 6 AEROTEL HeartOne The work of Tambouris, Williams, and Makropoulos (2000) entitled: "Cooperatives Health Information Networks in Europe: Experiences from Greece and Scotland" states that internet technology is transforming the general approach to communication and dissemination of information in the field of healthcare." (Tambouris, Williams and Makropoulos, 2000) The chaotic nature of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the simplistic approach adopted by search engines can make the task of finding relevant information difficult and the user can waste considerable amounts of time on the process
It is a unique system which has been shown to facilitate improved home health-care control, enabling patients to manage their own health condition and providing them with a higher quality of life and enhanced peace of mind. (Roth, Carthy and Bendek, 1996) Roth, Carthy and Bendek (1996) states that in the majority of telemedicine applications "a certain amount of time is consumed while multidisciplinary inputs converge in order to reply to the needs of the remotely located patients or form a link between one medical source and another
Information Technology: Telemedicine Solutions Offered to Remote Places in the Country of Greece The term 'telemedicine' derives from the Greek 'tele' meaning 'at a distance' and the present word 'medicine' which itself derives from the Latin 'mederi' meaning 'healing'." (Mavengere, nd) The American Telemedicine Association defines Telemedicine as "
Literature Review The work of Doukas, Maglogiannis and Kormentzas (2006) entitled: "Advanced Telemedicine Services Through Context-Aware Medical Networks" states that remote patient care and telemedicine platforms have been proven to be significant tools for "the optimization of patient treatment in isolated areas. " (Doukas, Maglogiannis and Kormentzas, 2006) Not only does telemedicine reduce costs associated with "transport, accommodation, and medical-professional related costs" but as well a "full time 24 hours per day, 7 days per week patient status monitoring is provided
The geography of Greece is stated to be "rather special, while most of the Greek terrain is either mountainous, with the 70% of it presumed as mountainous or semi-mountainous, or small island with almost 1,000 islands." (Florinis, 2009) Twenty-five percent of the population lives in rural settings
Within the scope of the cross border collaboration that serve the INTERREG III program is included the effort of the 3rd Regional Health Authority (RHA1) of Greece to apply eHealth applications in order to serve the collaboration of Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in the axe of improving the quality of life and health care provision." (Spyrou, Varzopoulous, Bamidis, and Maglaveras, 2008) It is additionally related that the 3rd Regional Health Authority "manages 17 hospitals, 17 Health Units and 166 district health units
(nd) entitled: "The U-R-Safe Telemedicine Project: Improving Health Care of the Elderly" reports the U-R Safe Project is one which has as its aims the creation of a mobile telemedicine care environment for the elderly "thus helping to mitigate the problems of health care provision observed in the Western societies caused by the aging population and the associated increasing costs." (Mailhes, et al
For many healthcare providers the real customers aren't the patients, it's the insurance companies and other healthcare payment processors. The most successful telemedicine systems concentrate first on the needs of patients and align all internal processes to that objective first (Coughlan, Eatock, Eldabi, 2006)
The potential for telemedicine to transform the Grand Hospital and make it more effective at anticipating and meeting patients' needs is clear with how diverse, distributed and disparate the systems are today. Transitioning from a traditional clinical practice to one that is more automated takes an exceptional level of effort with change management planning, execution and follow-through as many roles and responsibilities' in healthcare organizations change over time as a result (Josey, Gustke, 1999)