Telemedicine: Medicine Through Videoconferencing

Read the Real World Case 3: Brain Saving Technologies, Inc. Medicine and the T-Health Institute: Medicine through Videoconferencing

•         From the perspective of the patient, explain how you would feel about being diagnosed by a doctor who could be hundreds or thousands of miles from you. Describe any expectations or concerns you would have about that kind of experience.

     Whenever there is a merge between patient care in the healthcare industry and videoconferencing, the term is then called telemedicine. Telemedicine is known as a procedure developed to help to provide a healthcare service that is most effective and timely as well (Field Telemedicine, 1996). Today, the aspect of technology, as well as its ability, is changing from what it used to be in the past. For example, even today, many healthcare organizations and facilities lack the skill and some facilities may even lack the equipment they need to effectively diagnose their patients. However, videoconferencing has its benefits when it comes to long-distance communication between patients and healthcare firms as explained in the text.

     However, this is not concerning what financial benefits both the healthcare professional and I would acquire upon the visit. For example, videoconferencing involves a number of benefits that include cost. For example, traveling can be a very costly operation when professionals and clients wish to attend meetings and compare information. From a patient's perspective, I would feel a little comfortable yet, a little uncomfortable being diagnosed by a doctor who was miles away from me. For example, a difference in policies, culture, religion and law could have an impact on healthcare diagnosis and healthcare results. In the process, these two parties should hold a clear form of communication in the process of sending and receiving messages that are accurate and timely (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011).

     Patients who need to be diagnosed should feel better about these procedures because they have a better opportunity for a successful healthcare outcome. When receiving healthcare from a professional who resides miles away from your location, there can be a wider scope of skills and available equipment to perform medical procedures and to process information. Telemedicine allows patients to be monitored both in the healthcare facility as well as in their private homes. Another advantage of telemedicine is the fact that hospitals are able to train more nurses at a time. I would also expect telemedicine to help to save resources and to treat more patients as well.

•         Discuss other professions, aside from health care and education that could benefit from the application of some of the technologies discussed in this case. Explain how they would derive business value from these projects. Develop two proposals in different professional settings.

     In a political setting, physical attendance might raise a security issue. The person who is holding the speech may be under tight security to the point where he or she may need to speak over the air. For example, the President, Mayor of a town and or board members might need to be heard by large numbers of people throughout several counties at a time within one state. This is why videoconferencing is so effective because of the ability to send or receive messages or media within real-time frames. As a result, citizens are informed of the particular speech at the same time of a day. IT like video chat sessions would be a much greater value because it would make operations a lot less costly. Another proposal would be recruiting departments within a business. Internet communication could help employers to communicate with potential employees. In the process, internet communication software could help these individuals to better send and receive information like resumes, employer expectations, and norms, as well as work histories and experience to help speed up the hiring process. Prior to actually arriving at the destination or location of the actual business, clients would already have an idea of the work they would be performing and the skills required for the position. Employers would also have an idea of future benefits expected to be gained within their firms by the identification of significant patterns within activities as well (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011).

•         The deployment of IT in health professions is still very much in its infancy. Discuss other uses of technology that could potentially improve the quality of health care.

Compose a list of at least three alternatives.

     There are a number of different uses of technology that could improve the quality of healthcare. For example, IT helps to build capacity which in return can reduce the amount of organizational errors. Another strategy which could be implemented to reduce errors would be to improve education and skill of healthcare providers and to promote patient safety. Strategic partnerships between IT vendors who distribute recommendations and preventative services help to protect geographical healthcare statuses. IT could also be utilized to simplify collection and reporting of patient safety data from the Department of health.

     As a result, organizations can experience improvement in the quality of healthcare and public health by the adoption of national healthcare and safety standards (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011). IT also helps to prevent attacks on the health of patients as well. For example, information technology can transmit messages and alerts to prevent bioterrorism attacks such as anthrax. For example, when high numbers of certain healthcare conditions that are highly contagious, communicable illness or harmful when exposed to higher numbers of individuals, the department of health will be alerted and recovery services will be sent out to mitigate the actual effects of patients. This kind of technology is designed to detect a significant increase or reduction in a particular condition, which gives emergency health-care professions time to respond in a timely manner which increases the chances of a full recovery. Whenever there is a merge between patient care in the health-care industry and videoconferencing, the term is then called telemedicine.