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