Telemedicine uses combination of
telecommunication and I.T (Information and technology) to provide the
healthcare services at distant places. It helps in giving better and less time
consuming access to doctors moreover it eliminates the barriers of distance.
The most important benefit of telemedicine or telehealth care services is that
it can save a life of a person who is in emergency situation.
Telemedicine companies are
regularly improving the access of telemedicine in the easiest possible way. The
combination of technology and healthcare has given better facilities to the
people who travel long distance just for regular checkups. The combination
allows communication between medical staff and patient with greater comfort and
convenience. it also helps in the transmission of medical health informatics
data & images to the distant places through web.
During early days telemedicine
provider gave telephone & radio that were supplemented with video
telephony to make telemedicine possible and advanced diagnostic methods were
well supported by client/server applications (distributed)
Benefits
- Telemedicine is most beneficial for people living in remote and isolated regions as it cuts off their travel time.
- Telemedicine helps medical staff and others in getting educated by observing experts of the fields.
- Telemedicine providers have recently developed mobile collaboration technology which helps doctors share information from multiple locations and discuss the issues related to the patients.
- Mobile technology helps in monitoring health of remote patients and enables doctors to give remote prescription for their health problems
- Cheaper and money saving technology.
- Better comfort level for patients/person who feels uncomfortable going to the hospitals or clinics.
- Eliminates the threat of infectious diseases or parasites that might spread from patients to medical staff.
How to choose a Telemedicine Company
- Who has maximum trained and registered professionals
- Who offers more interaction between a Patient and registered Professional, i.e. availability of registered Professionals
- Registered professional needs to be present when delivering medical services
- Who offer Quality of telemedicine and ease of transmitting reports
Types of telemedicine
Store-and-forward : This type of telemedicine is all about acquiring the medical data of the patient and then forwarding it to a specialist physician for assessment for example bio-signals and medical images.
Remote monitoring : this type of telemedicine is used to when the patient is monitored by the medical professionals remotely with the help of technological devices
(Real-time) interactive services: This type of telemedicine includes online communication and the phone conversation between provider & patient.
In this face paced world where the person doesn’t have time even to meet their near and dear one’s, telemedicine comes as fix to save time and money when person become sick or ill.
Store-and-forward : This type of telemedicine is all about acquiring the medical data of the patient and then forwarding it to a specialist physician for assessment for example bio-signals and medical images.
Remote monitoring : this type of telemedicine is used to when the patient is monitored by the medical professionals remotely with the help of technological devices
(Real-time) interactive services: This type of telemedicine includes online communication and the phone conversation between provider & patient.
In this face paced world where the person doesn’t have time even to meet their near and dear one’s, telemedicine comes as fix to save time and money when person become sick or ill.
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