scholarly journals Collaboration Technology for Rural Health-care

1997 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
R. S. Raman ◽  
V.J agannathan ◽  
K. Srinivas ◽  
S. Reddy ◽  
K.J. Cleetus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Rural Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Quality Health

AbstractHealth-care is a collaborative endeavor involving a number of individuals and organizations with diverse perspectives. Computer-supported collaboration technologies have great potential to enable health-care providers to improve the quality of care provided to their patients. Such technologies have the potential to overcome barriers to quality health-care in the small, scattered populations of rural areas. Rapid changes in technology are making it more and more possible for collaborative telemedicine to be a part of the practice of medicine. The World Wide Web has amply demonstrated that the globe has shrunk and information from afar is a mere mouse click away. However, the ease with which information is accessed along with the potential disclosure and misuse of personal information has raised serious concerns about the ability to restrict such information to legitimate accesses by duly authorized health-care providers. The authors present their experience in developing a health-care collaboration facility, ARTEMIS, which enabled Web-based access to electronic medical records, and provide a vision of their experiment to provide secure telemedicine for rural health-care practitioners.

From Health Care Volume to Health Care Value-Success Strategies for Rural Health Care Providers

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Clinton MacKinney ◽  
Keith J. Mueller ◽  
Thomas Vaughn ◽  
Xi Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Rural Health Care ◽  
Success Strategies ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Value

The ethics of interprofessional collaboration

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 426-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce Engel ◽  
Dawn Prentice
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Moral Distress ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Health Care Outcomes ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Interprofessional Competencies

Interprofessional collaboration has become accepted as an important component in today’s health care and has been guided by concerns with patient safety, quality health-care outcomes, and economics. It is widely accepted that interprofessional collaboration improves patient outcomes through enhanced communication among health-care providers and increased accessibility to services. Although there is a paucity of research that provides confirmatory evidence, interprofessional competencies continue to be incorporated into the curricula of health-care students. This article examines the ethics of interprofessional collaboration and ethical issues that arise from the mainstream adoption of interprofessional competencies and the potential for moral distress in nursing.

scholarly journals Importance and Opportunities of Telemedicine in Resource-Poor Countries during Epidemic Situation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Mohammed Alshakka ◽  
Wafa F. S. Badulla ◽  
Nazeh Al-Abd ◽  
Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quality Health

This review article aims to present a general picture of what telemedicine entails and the importance of providing quality health care in various medical aspects. The field of telemedicine has noticeably grown-up, with a growing number of applications and a diversity of technologies in different medical specialties and clinical situations by using electronic signals to transfer the medical data from one place to another. At present, health authorities have high anticipation for telemedicine. It addresses several significant challenges to advancing healthcare access to overwhelm the scarcity of specialists tackling epidemic diseases. The article starts with a brief introduction to the evolution of telemedicine and its importance in the health care system. Then, we provide a conceptual context for the proliferation of related concepts, such as telehealth, e-health, and m-health. Our primary concern is to focus on telemedicine's role in epidemic situations, emphasizing the current pandemic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (covid-19 ) and demonstrating how it can be used to provide definitive information about the actual effects of telemedicine in terms of cost, quality, and access. However, there is an emergent interest among government authorities, health care providers and medical professionals to enhance the efficiency of providing a wide range of medical services in terms of cost and time. Thus, the effective use of telemedicine and related technologies will be able to assist with it. We conclude that telemedicine should be considered as a potential tool to react to an emergency. Therefore, further research should be conducted to understand better how telemedicine could be applied wisely in epidemic situations.

scholarly journals Insights for rural health care provider retention : a quantitative survey analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Maria Kuhns
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Care Provider ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Provider ◽  
Rural Health Care ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Impact

Due to rural health disparities and an uneven distribution of health providers across the rural urban continuum, retaining the existing rural health care provider workforce may be an important strategy to maintain existing rural health care provision. While a large body of literature addresses how to recruit health care providers to rural areas, less is known about how to retain these providers. Even less literature has focused on the role of rural communities in health care provider retention. In this thesis, I examine the role of provider background and familial characteristics, workplace characteristics, and community characteristics that may impact a provider's likelihood to consider leaving a rural community. I use data from a survey of over 900 rural health care providers across nine states and a probit model to estimate the impact of these characteristics on a provider's propensity to consider leaving. I find that establishing social ties and integrating within the community through volunteering reduces providers' likelihood to consider leaving by 10 percent. Additionally, providers who engage in entrepreneurship by investing in part or all of their practice are 12 percent less likely to consider leaving, all else being equal. I also find that having unacceptable on-call responsibilities increases a provider's likelihood to consider leaving by 17 percent. This thesis contributes to the existing literature by estimating the effects of work-life balance, entrepreneurship, and the role of family and personal integration on provider retention. Furthermore, it emphasizes the role of communities in provider retention. These results offer insights to rural communities and decision-makers seeking to identify how to maintain their existing rural health care workforce.

Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Arrests in Rural Populations

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-306
Author(s):  
Jeffrey E. Thompson ◽  
Bethann Bonner ◽  
Gerald M. Lower
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Rural Health Care ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Sudden Infant Death ◽  
Respiratory Arrest ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Pediatric Resuscitation

We reviewed emergency department records that spanned a period of 5 years at seven rural hospitals to provide more specific data concerning pediatric resuscitation. The purpose was to plan better for preventive programs and to help rural health care providers prepare better for these difficult patients. Patients entered in the study had either cardiorespiratory arrest or respiratory arrest. Although the distribution by age was similar to studies from other areas, the outcome for cardiorespiratory arrests was as bad or worse (70 arrests with 3 survivors), and the outcome of respiratory arrests was as good or better (25 arrests with 21 survivors) as reported previously. Survival of arrest from trauma and accidents was markedly worse (16%) than survival from nontraumatic arrests (44%). The etiologies of the arrests were dominated by sudden infant death syndrome and pulmonary disease but with very few drownings or farmrelated fatalities. This study should encourage rural health care providers to increase efforts in specific areas of trauma and accident prevention. Also, respiratory illness needs to be monitored aggressively and respiratory arrests treated more effectively to avoid the much more consistently lethal cardiac arrests. In addition, more careful prospective study of these patients may be able to identify care patterns that can be improved to increase survival in these groups.

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