Recent Trends of Telemedicine and Telehealth: Great Benefit to The Society
Telemedicine and telehealth are the remote delivery of the services, such as consultations over telecommunication and using other digital platforms…
Telemedicine and can provide cost-effective health care services…
You have an appointment with your doctor but are very busy, couldn’t get time to visit, and sit for a long time in their waiting lounge. You have an emergency in your office. What will you do? Another question is what do you want?
Is it possible that your doctor is just a call away to have a dialogue?
It just happens with Lisa, after her surgery she is in, post-operative care and at home feeling more discomfort she schedules a virtual call with her physician to communicate, and discuss her concern get some remedy for immediate relief, and also get rescheduled appointment.
Yes, you are thinking about telemedicine and telehealth, these are very trendy in the health care industry.
What is telemedicine and telehealth
Telemedicine and telehealth are the remote delivery of the services, such as consultations over telecommunication and using other digital platforms, and it allows healthcare professionals to test, diagnose, and treat patients. Telemedicine and can provide cost-effective health care services with enhancement health outcomes.
How it works?
Telemedicine and Telehealth are now part of a digital transformation in health care. Patients also want to get advantages of novel ways by using mobile apps to interact with the providers in a more convenient manner. As a result, hospitals and health systems need a strategy for their own digital transformation. Tele hospital Tele homes and M health (mobile health) are the new modes through them service providers offer services like telepathology, telecardiology teleradiology, Teledermatology, Telepsychiatry, and Others.
Recent studies based on various perspectives like
How telemedicine and telehealth are part of a digital health revolution?
The flexibility of delivery platforms and hand their integration with virtual integrated care?
Why telemedicine and telehealth is critical to health care transformation?
What are the challenges to telemedicine and telehealth expansion?
The current state of telemedicine and telehealth and opportunities for their growth, and what technology options are available?
How health care systems can build capacity to expand, access, improve outcomes, and reduce cost have and offered some great insights.
Various organizations have built their own development program for implementing telemedicine and telehealth. Though it’s a long journey, health care is moving toward a participatory health ecosystem and consumers is, at the center of their own care journey.
Telemedicine and telehealth work on three fundamentals-
1 Ease of access:
Telemedicine provides ease of access, the patients and professional teams need not require moving from their locations. High-value medical information can reach to remote areas,
2 Cost reduction:
telemedicine works on the principle of cost reduction. Because of less requirement of transportation, a brief stay in the hospital.
3 Services with greater efficiency
It helps in promoting better use of resources with less waste. The latest devices integrated with technology are ready to extend its usage to a greater population.
Tele home-care is an innovative way of service that comprises all the above features like ease, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency to monitor a patient, and provide information, by using the latest technology in telecommunication. These services allow early identification of disease. In the UK, the USA, and in Denmark these programs are meant to monitor chronic disease by remote monitoring.
In the UK Whole system demonstrator project (WSD),
In USA Veterans health segmentation and
In Denmark TeleKart programs.
So this scheme is directly affecting the growth of telemedicine.
Healthcare costs are rising across the world. A major reason for the rising cost of healthcare services, because of consumer demand for innovative techniques and lifestyle factors, etc. One of the reasons for the rising costs is cost-shifting from government to private player, because of low reimbursement cost-shifting burden on hospitals and doctors. Now it’s changing as both public and private payers recognize the cost savings found in telehealth offerings.
As per Merritt Hawkins's survey in the US, 48% of physicians are now treating a patient using telemedicine and which is up from 18%in 2018.
Important features of Telemedicine and telehealth
1Greater convenience for patients
Great convenience, reduction of the need to travel is very helpful to patients and their family members. Now telemedicine apps have increased the accessibility to healthcare using various apps, video chat even in remotest locations without a primary care center. It also becomes possible to reach out to a physician anytime and anywhere around the clock with no restriction.
Many telehealth apps help manage diseases like diabetes, cholesterol, or addiction. The apps send your prescriptions to chosen pharmacies and you can pick up your medicines conveniently.
Names of some apps MDLive, LiveHealth, Lemonaid, Maple, Mfine, Doctor On Demand, etc. 70% of patients increased on telemedicine app PUSH. one E-consultation company is handling 12000 consultations from300counsultation per day.
2 Trends in telemedicine
The graph shows that every region is showing the growth of telemedicine technology in consecutive years. If the statistics tell us anything it’s that telemedicine will only continue growing. Telemedicine will be worth more than $66 billion by the year 2021, as reported by Mordor Intelligence. As per statists by 2026 it would be $175.5 billion. Recent Cisco global survey proved that 74% of patient prefer easy access to healthcare services
Convenience became the key to medicine. Patients want to get virtual care, they want to save their time and cost of most in-person visits.
Now patients of a remote area can get help and even those who are homebound or just can’t take time to visit their doctors can access care virtually.
Smartphones make it possible to use both clinical and lifestyle applications, by using mobile applications, 60% of adults monitor their weight, diet, and exercise; 33% of them of track, headaches, sleep patterns, blood glucose, blood pressure, and chronic pain.
Services of a specialist
People have to wait long for their appointment with a specialist, now become possible to access specialist for life-saving consultation for chronic cure. It’s true that telemedicine develops from a technology-driven novelty to an essential component of health care delivery in number.
Patient care quality
Now patient can discuss their issues and get real-time urgent care consultation.so telemedicine offers a patient-centric approach. Various devices and tools are available -
Home messaging devices
Telemedicine and telehealth operate, in connection with patients engagement tools. For this Q&A for patient education and self-management via Disease Management, Protocols. Patients prefer messaging applications or online portals or work from a shared platform that integrates technology such as provide communications.
Clinical tools Various tools such as biometric scales, blood pressure, or heart rate monitors, stethoscopes, glaucomatous, and pulse oximeters are helpful in routine monitoring.
Monitoring center links connected to the hospital or medical practice with fetal monitoring, cardiac, pulmonary, or other connected care.
Telemonitoring devices for the frail or elderly person to capture their room motion and respond if the patient falls or has a lengthy period of inactivity
Training is important
Training is very effective in building a telemedicine program. Now the training of practicing managers, executives, and other medical staff is essential. It provides a solid ROI to an organization and one more important feature is that now it requires less staff single nurses can handle multiple tasks.
Challenges
As telemedicine relying 100% on technology, cybersecurity plays a prominent role to protect the health care industry. You will see massive changes in the way the telemedicine industry goes about protecting confidential information. It is on the defensive side of cyber attacks, the telemedicine industry will continue taking action to strengthen its security. It has certain limitations, but exploring and innovating deep into the matter of organization will solve the issues and improve their patients access to quality care.
Conclusion
So we hope that this technology and information-driven health care will serve as a lifeline to a million people including those of remote areas.
As patients are more aware, more options are open to customers and providers and this will help all to gain the momentum and will take you to a new horizon of success in service with convenience and with greater satisfaction.
Written By — Life Coach Vinayam
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