Chapter Proposal
Title: Mobile Telemedicine Systems for Remote Patient’s Chronic Wound Monitoring
Mission and Major Concerns:
This chapter describes the implementation of a telemedicine system for patient’s chronic wound monitoring using smart phone. Smart phone has been recognized as a possible tool for telemedicine. In fact, the mobile telephony has been providing a lot of offers new devices with some useful resources like serial ports and Internet connections. This system proved to be quick and reliable.
Chronic wounds have become a big challenge in medical health care problem globally. The skin is an incredible organ often known as "the largest organ of the human body" as it stretches throughout all the body parts. A wound is defined
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The main aim is to provide expert based medical care service to any place that health care is needed for promoting wound healing. A Telemedicine system offers reliable and accurate diagnostic services to patients at affordable prices. Crisis of good medical doctors, nurses, clinics or hospitals and expensive expenditure incurred during medical treatment, increase the seriousness of the problem. Due to unavailability of these factors the Telemedicine is needed to collect the vital patient’s information remotely through computer added diagnostics and or high resolution camera based portable smart phone. Chronic wound problem is a serious issue, it can be solved using digital platform like smart phone, and remote patient’s become benefited. The main goals of telemedicine are improve access to health care facility for rural areas, gives clinicians better accessibility to tertiary consultation, give clinicians access to conduct remote examinations respectively, improving patient care, reduce health-care costs and reduce patient transfers to secondary and tertiary care centers …show more content…
When tele-medical agents return to a medical health information exchange TMH where Internet is available, the collected local information will be forwarded to a web-based multi-specialty telemedicine service. Appropriate returning messages will be routed to local providers through physical delivery to ensure information integrity. Phone calls or text messaging will be used only during a medical emergency. With lessons learned from this field study, we will establish a workable model of health information exchange and telemedicine to connect rural patients with medical services available only in the cities. A medical imaging system is used in the telemedicine system for capturing wound images of a patient’s skin. The practice of tele-dermatology requires high resolution and properly illuminated color images and video. Choosing appropriate wound image quality for telemedicine is important to ensure accurate diagnoses on the part of the clinicians, while keeping network traffic down. Telemedicine systems are broadly categories in two type’s i.e. real-time telemedicine system and store-and-forward approach respectively. In the real-time mode, the clinician is present during the capture process through a videoconferencing system and streaming live data can be send to TMH. The store-and-forward approach in telemedicine system consists of a tele-medical agent capturing patient
The limitations are to be addressed such as lack of infrastructure, high start-up cost and optimal funding need to be allocated. At this point of time it is apposite to to plan for the future through this recommendations using the telehelath, good governance, maintain good infrastructure, patient awareness and implementing the laws. Implementations of all this will transform the current health care into technological advanced health care. There by reaching being more feasible to clinicians and patients.
With the uberization of healthcare and telehealth we often feel overwhelmed by the push for telehealth. As independent advisors, Ingenium Telehealth Consultants will work with you to determine which services will be successful, appropriate and the best way to integrate technology into the care delivery processes. Several benefits have been identified as a result of telehealth services being introduced. Increase the accessibility of and to professional caregivers Increase the quality and continuity of care to patients Increase the focus on preventive medicine through early intervention Reduce the overall cost of healthcare Education and training Contrary to vendor solutions, one size does not fit all.
Medical technologies and apps are relevant to solving most of the challenges affecting Suburban Independent Clinic(SIC). The implementation of mobile technologies will improve the efficient and effective delivery of care to the patients visiting the clinic. Mobile devices and its application will facilitate SIC patients to have 24/7 access to their medical records, refill their prescriptions, complete medical forms online, send emails and video chat with their doctors, thus leading to a better opportunity of managing their conditions. Patients will have other options available for scheduling their appointments. With improved mobile technology and apps, patients could schedule their appointments using text messaging, email, web app.
The most commonly reported telemedicine services were tele-psychiatry and tele-cardiology, followed by telestroke and teledermatology. Exhibit 2 provides an overview of respondents’ affiliations and respective
Since its startup in 2005 its mission to disrupt the slow moving world of health care by providing a free service of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) to doctors and their facilities. This system will benefit doctors by cutting down cost, decrease medical errors, decrease mishandled or forgotten messages. It will help the overall goal of medical errors. It improves accuracy through record legibility and record
These results are not completely logically due to the fact of the unavailability there is of this technology, not all collegiate and youth programs are going to have access to telemedicine, making it not logical. Aside from this, the information is still reliable and sufficient. The authors organized the information all in one section, but inside of this it is still relatively simple to
Several professional goals have supported my decision to join an MSW program. I have considered opening a personal practice where I can conduct client care of my own volition as well as the possibility of working with telehealth-based therapy groups to connect with a broad range of clients. I also have aspirations of working with the LGBTQIA+ community. I have several family members who are part of the LGBTQIA+ and feel passionate about advocating for the young members of this group to find inner strength and agency amidst turbulent periods. Another goal I have frequently contemplated, especially over the past few socially tumultuous years, is being involved in legislature creation.
Hello, Lori You made a great point with telehealth and telecare. Sanders et al. (2012) identified telehealth and telecare interventions for improving quality and cost-effectiveness of care for people with long term complex health and social care needs. Patients who use this innovative change in care delivery have an increase in autonomy. There is the convenience as you emphasized due to decrease in unnecessary travel.
Prior to performing a physical assessment of the skin, a health history should be obtained. The following data should be gathered from the patient and/or family members when performing a health history about the integumentary system. ASSESSMENT OF SKIN-SUBJECTIVE DATA -Past health history-- indicates
Telehealth offers real-time communication where a patient consults with a physician or where a nurse practitioner consults with a specialist through a link. In such cases, the patient can access primary care without going to the clinic. Reaching patients at home saves not only travel times and related practitioners and patients expenses but also improves patient survival as well as recovery. Effectiveness of the TELEHEALTH (ethical-legal issues) The effectiveness of telehealth technology is affected by issues of ethics, costs of infrastructure and legal issues.
Depending on the type of office and the patients there in, will determine what electronic health system you will need. Some doctors have patients that need a high level of care and lots of tests and other documented information, like cardiology. Other offices might be able to use a simple program because they don 't have many patients or the patients they do have don 't require extensive documentation. You have to consider the amount of time you may, or may not have to train the staff and get all the information transferred. Once the needs of the facility are determined, it is then important to decide on a system that will coincide.
“Electronic health information exchange (HIE) allows doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other health care providers and patients to appropriately access and securely share a patient’s vital medical information electronically—improving the speed, quality, safety and cost of patient care” (HealthIT, 2014). Health Information exchange is becoming important in the communication between providers to provide the best care possible to patients. Every state along with their hospitals has their own way of exchanging information between each other. South Carolina’s health information exchange is called “SCHIEx” (AHIMA, 2010). “SCHIEx provides a state-level information infrastructure for connecting local healthcare providers and other stakeholders” (AHIMA,
The use of satellites for remote monitoring of patients has also led to the development of new techniques for diagnosing and treating diseases. Additionally, the use of computers and the internet has led to the creation of electronic health records and the development of new medical imaging techniques. These advancements have greatly improved the quality of healthcare and have made it more accessible to people around the
They are able to use secure messaging to ask point related questions and receive shorter response times than waiting on a phone calls. This method is efficient with the doctors as well, they are not being overloaded with incoming phone calls and patients avoid miscommunication or missed phone calls. Once they leave their doctor they are able to review doctors' notes in the case the patient did not remember what was discussed. Health information exchange has many benefits, however there are many challenges as well. HIEs have to select one or more vendor to deliver services in a successful manner.
The Skin Structure and Function: The skin is the largest organ. It covers the whole body and is water-resistant. The skin consists of two layers; the Epidermis and Dermis (under which lies the subcutaneous or fatty layer).