Question

How has telemedicine changed medicine within your work area or organization in the past 5 years? If you currently do not work within healthcare, please provide an example of telemedicine in the past 5 years that is of interest. Explain how tele-medicine, tele-ICU, and virtual visits are improving health and being used throughout your healthcare organization.

Answer 1

Answer: Telemedicine provides many benefits and it is becoming more successful since past years. Telemedicine is a platform which provides patient to communicate with the healthcare professionals. They get all the information regarding medications. Telemedicine and telehealth removes the distance barriers between patient and healthcare providers.

For example: It was difficult for elder people to visit hospital regularly for the medications or consulting to the physician. But with the help of telemedicine now they can even get the diagnosis done at the center and the image of the report can be directly send to the physician and hence physician prescribes medicine after seeing the reports. It is time saving and cost effective way to get treated.

Telemedicine, tele ICU and virtual visits plays major roles in improving the healthcare as first of all it removes the distance barriers as well as it save time and cost effective. People can easily access the facilities. They need not to take tension or wait in a long queue. Physician can easily communicate with the patient and also those are admitted in ICU. Tele ICU lead physician and healthcare providers to keep check from distance also. They can easily access and evaluate the condition and if any emergency occurs they can directly reach to the particular patient. It enhances the quality of care provided to the patients. It saves time so it decreases the burden on healthcare professionals. So, they can freely available at anytime for the patient and can provide proper care without stress.