Telemedicine in the future

2005 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 384-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J Heinzelmann ◽  
Nancy E Lugn ◽  
Joseph C Kvedar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Third Party ◽  
The Future ◽  
Referral Hospitals ◽  
The Individual

summary Telemedicine can provide a compelling alternative to conventional acute, chronic and preventive care, and can improve clinical outcomes. In the industrialized world, it is likely that telemedicine will continue to move healthcare delivery from the hospital or clinic into the home. In the developing world or in regions with limited infrastructure, telemedicine will mainly be used in applications that link providers based at health centres, referral hospitals and tertiary centres. The future of telemedicine will depend on: (1) human factors, (2) economics and (3) technology. Behaviours related to technology affect change at the individual, organizational and societal level. Personnel shortages and decreasing third-party reimbursement are significant drivers of technology-enabled health care in the industrialized world, particularly in the areas of home care and self-care. We can safely assume that developments in mobile communications, sensor devices and nanotechnology will alter the way that health care is delivered in the future. The growth and integration of information and communication technologies into health-care delivery holds great potential for patients, providers and payers in health systems of the future. Perhaps the most difficult question to answer, however, is ‘When will telemedicine become part of the standard of care?’

scholarly journals A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF RURAL DWELLERS TOWARDS HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (04) ◽  
pp. 451-454
Author(s):  
Felix a ◽  
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J. Ugwu ◽  
Clara Okenyi ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Rural Dwellers

The present study aimed to comparatively analyze healthcare delivery perception among rural dwellers based on education (formal/informal) and gender. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design. A total of two hundred rural dwellers comprising males and females participated in the study. Perception towards health care delivery was measured with a self-developed instrument with demographic information. An independent t-test analysis found no statistically significant relationship between education and perception towards health care delivery. However, the result revealed a significant relationship between gender and perception towards health care delivery. Females were found to show a more positive attitude towards health care delivery than their male counterparts. The findings and conclusions are discussed.

The American Academy of Pediatrics Involvement in Health Care Financing

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Richard Don Blim
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Comprehensive Health Care ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Comprehensive Health

In what is considered one of the most important books of the past decade—Future Shock—Alvin Toffler1 describes the sickness that befalls an individual, an organization, or a nation when it is overwhelmed by rapid changes. He asserts that two actions must be initiated if "future shock" is to be minimized. They are (1) make the best assumptions possible about the future, and (2) undertake to control change. The health care field in the '70s faces many complex and difficult problems. Removing the financial barriers to comprehensive health care for all is but one of these formidable problems. Unquestionably, other problems involving the quality, quantity, efficiency and distribution of health care delivery require continued attention and should be resolved concurrently with the development of methods to finance comprehensive health care for all. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS (AAP) COMMITTEE ON THIRD PARTY PAYMENT PLANS In October 1956 the AAP appointed a Committee on Medical Care Plans. This committee was active until 1962 and was then dormant until 1964. At that time, the Council on Pediatric Practice was established in response to urgings of a number of Fellows that more consideration be given to the problems of the practice of pediatrics and its socioeconomic aspects. The Executive Board charged the council to concern itself with the delivery by pediatricians of the best possible care for the greatest number of children. At its first meeting in 1964, the council determined that the two items needing most urgent attention were the development of standards for child health care and the problems relating to various third party payment health plans, both private and governmental.

Data Mining in Health Care Applications

Data Mining ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 350-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fay Cobb Payton
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Patient Data ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Health Care Applications ◽  
Community Data ◽  
The Individual

Recent attention has turned to the healthcare industry and its use of voluntary community health information network (CHIN) models for e-health and care delivery. This chapter suggests that competition, economic dimensions, political issues, and a group of enablers are the primary determinants of implementation success. Most critical to these implementations is the issue of data management and utilization. Thus, health care organizations are finding value as well as strategic applications to mining patient data, in general, and community data, in particular. While significant gains can be obtained and have been noted at the organizational level of analysis, much attention has been given to the individual, where the focal points have centered on privacy and security of patient data. While the privacy debate is a salient issue, data mining (DM) offers broader community-based gains that enable and improve healthcare forecasting, analyses, and visualization.

Intensive Care Unit Operational Modeling and Analysis

2011 ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Yue Dong ◽  
Huitian Lu ◽  
Ognjen Gajic ◽  
Brian Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Life Threatening

The outcome of critical illness depends not only on life threatening pathophysiologic disturbances, but also on several complex “system” dimensions: health care providers’ performance, organizational factors, environmental factors, family preferences and the interactions between each component. Systems engineering tools offer a novel approach which can facilitate a “systems understanding” of patient-environment interactions enabling advances in the science of healthcare delivery. Due to the complexity of operations in critical care medicine, certain assumptions are needed in order to understand system behavior. Patient variation and uncertainties underlying these assumptions present a challenge to investigators wishing to model and improve health care delivery processes. In this chapter we present a systems engineering approach to modeling critical care delivery using sepsis resuscitation as an example condition.

Broadband for Health in Developing Countries

2011 ◽  
pp. 581-592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aradhana Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Policy Direction ◽  
Immense Potential

This chapter highlights the major issues in the use of broadband technologies in health care in developing countries. The use of Internet technologies in the health sector has immense potential in developing countries, especially in the context of public health programs. Some of the main uses of information and communication technologies (ICT) in health include remote consultations and diagnosis, information dissemination and networking between health providers, user groups, and forums, Internet-based disease surveillance and identification of target groups for health interventions, facilitation of health research and support to health care delivery, and administration. The technology has immense potential, but is also constrained by lack of policy direction, problems with access to technology, and lack of suitable infrastructure in developing nations. However, given its crucial role in public health, comprehensive efforts are required from all concerned stakeholders if universal e-health is to become a reality.

Digital Divide and E-Health Implications for E-Collaboration Research

2011 ◽  
pp. 1574-1580
Author(s):  
Michele Masucci
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Specialized Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery Systems ◽  
Health Applications

E-health has rapidly gained attention as a framework for understanding the relationship between using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to promote individual and community health, and using ICTs for improving the management of health care delivery systems. The use of e-collaborative tools is implicit to the delivery and access of e-health. Development of the capacity to transmit and receive digital diagnostic images, use video telecommunications for supporting the remote delivery of specialized care and surgical procedures, and the use of e-communication technologies to support logistical elements of medical care (such as scheduling appointments, filling prescriptions, and responding to patient questions) are just a few ways in which e-communications are transforming how medical care is embedded within institutional, organizational, family, and community settings. The emerging field of e-collaboration focuses attention on the need for society to critically examine how electronic communication technologies facilitate, shape, and transform the ways in which organizations, groups, and communities interact. There are many works that explain how to (a) develop e-health systems, (b) assess the use of such systems, and (c) analyze the health outcomes that can be achieved with effective e-health applications (Brodie et al., 2000; Eder, 2000; Spil & Schuring, 2006). Less attention has been paid to how advances in e-collaboration research might inform e-health applications development and scholarly discourse. Because of this gap in the literature, few discussions pertain to understanding patient perspectives about the advantages and disadvantages that may result from rapidly emerging interconnections among access to health care, health information, health support systems, and ICTs (Berland et al., 2001; Hesse et al., 2005; Gibbons, 2005; Gilbert & Masucci, 2006).

The Future of Mental Health Care Delivery

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-266
Author(s):  
Michael C. Gottlieb ◽  
Caren C. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Mental Health Care Delivery ◽  
The Future

Australian Health Review call for papers

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Sandra G Leggat
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Review

Technology in health care: are we delivering on the promise? Australian Health Review invites contributions for an upcoming issue on information management and information and communication technology in health care. Submission deadline: 15 May 2007 Despite a reputation for less spending on information and communication technologies (ICT), the health care sector has an imperative to ensure the ?right? information has been made available and accessible to the ?right? person at the ?right? time. While there is increasing evidence that the strategic application of ICT in innovative ways can improve the effectiveness of health care delivery, we don?t often discuss the substantial changes to the way health care organisations operate that are required for best practice information management. In an upcoming issue, Australian Health Review is looking to publish feature articles, research papers, case studies and commentaries related to information management and information and communication technologies in health care. We are particularly interested in papers that report on the successes, or failures, of initiatives in Australia and New Zealand that have brought together the research, the technology and the clinical, managerial and organisational expertise. Submissions related to international initiatives with lessons for Australia and New Zealand will also be welcomed. Submissions can be short commentaries of 1000 to 2000 words, or more comprehensive reviews of 2000 to 4000 words. Please consult the AHR Guidelines for Authors for information on formatting and submission. The deadline for submission is 15 May 2007.

scholarly journals Management effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery system at ophthalmology outpatient department (OPD) in the Sadar Hospital, Chuadanga, Bangladesh

KYAMC Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
M Idris Ali ◽  
Monira Khatun ◽  
Abdullah Al Mamun ◽  
Md Mofazzal Sharif ◽  
AKM Enamul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Outpatient Department ◽  
Management Effectiveness ◽  
Hospital District ◽  
Department Of Ophthalmology ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency

Background: This present study was carried out in the Outpatient Department of Ophthalmology in Chuadanga Sadar hospital, Bangladesh with the general objective to observe the management effectiveness and efficiency of health service provided in Outpatient Department at Sadar hospital (District level) in Bangladesh and ultimately reveal the need of a managerial personnel in health management other than doctor.Objectives: The objective of the study was to find out management effectiveness, efficiency of health care service at OPD and ultimately reveal need for a managerial personnel for management other than doctor.Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out among 450 respondents by using a pre-tested questionnaire over a period of six months.Results: Regarding health care delivery system at outpatient in Bangladesh it was found that before appointment, majority of the respondent (94.44%) were referred to the OPD by local village doctor. After arrival at OPD, majority (29.56%) respondents experienced poor courtesy of the attending personnel. Consultation started between 16-30 minutes after appointment. During consultation with the doctor 66.22% respondents had enough time to consult to a doctor but to some extent. In most (50%) of the cases, consultation time was less than 5 minutes. Most of the respondents (48.88%) were not satisfied with the existing health care. Management effectiveness and efficiency of the existing healthcare service rated as fair (28.44%), poor (24.22%), good (21.57%), very good (13.77%) according to the opinion of the respondents. Ultimately 65.12% respondents sought for a need managerial personnel other than doctor.Conclusion: This study finding concluded need for managerial personnel for hospital management other than doctor himself.KYAMC Journal Vol. 9, No.-2, July 2018, Page 76-80

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