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Telemedicine comes home.
In today’s era, where people cannot cope with their work, diseases play an important role and are part of our lives. 1Every time a disease occurs, big or small, we cannot go to a doctor2. Here, Telemedicine plays a major part in solving our day to day medical problems3, where our diseases can be diagnosed without visiting a doctor. Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide health care.4 Telemedicine is a recognized as a subcategory of the health services profession as a technique.5 I will be writing about how change in technology causes an increase in use of telemedicine.6
Telemedicine has the ability to provide interactive health-care between patients and physicians. Telemedicine can be used a couple of different ways. One way is that the patient and physicians are able to speak with each other live over video for immediate care this is called real-time, and is the most common form used. There are Some benefits for the patient using telemedicine such as to be able to use this technology is that loved ones are able to remain in their society, the savings of cost from having to travel to other community, or offices, and having the possibility of having an early diagnoses before it’s too late.
Today’s stress on making medical treatment available to people in remote settings is just one way telemedicine can be used. Telemedicine holds a great promise within the health care. Technology can monitor people who have been diagnosed with heart diseases like diabetes from their own home which is much comfortable rather than having than having checkup at a clinic also some patients can now have their implants inspected using mobile phones, this way they need to visit clinic when it is absolutely necessary. Technology has being rapidly growing, in Germany, there are sensors based on wireless Bluetooth technology can measure glucose levels, blood pressure and weight, and can also upload the date on
In today’s era, where people cannot cope with their work, diseases play an important role and are part of our lives. 1Every time a disease occurs, big or small, we cannot go to a doctor2. Here, Telemedicine plays a major part in solving our day to day medical problems3, where our diseases can be diagnosed without visiting a doctor. Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide health care.4 Telemedicine is a recognized as a subcategory of the health services profession as a technique.5 I will be writing about how change in technology causes an increase in use of telemedicine.6
Telemedicine has the ability to provide interactive health-care between patients and physicians. Telemedicine can be used a couple of different ways. One way is that the patient and physicians are able to speak with each other live over video for immediate care this is called real-time, and is the most common form used. There are Some benefits for the patient using telemedicine such as to be able to use this technology is that loved ones are able to remain in their society, the savings of cost from having to travel to other community, or offices, and having the possibility of having an early diagnoses before it’s too late.
Today’s stress on making medical treatment available to people in remote settings is just one way telemedicine can be used. Telemedicine holds a great promise within the health care. Technology can monitor people who have been diagnosed with heart diseases like diabetes from their own home which is much comfortable rather than having than having checkup at a clinic also some patients can now have their implants inspected using mobile phones, this way they need to visit clinic when it is absolutely necessary. Technology has being rapidly growing, in Germany, there are sensors based on wireless Bluetooth technology can measure glucose levels, blood pressure and weight, and can also upload the date on
References: The Economist 2008, Telemedicine comes home, The Economist, in J Slaught & A Pallant (eds), Reading and Writing, The New York Times, pp 25-27