Currently, there is a disparity in the availability of doctors between urban and rural areas of developing countries [6]. Most experienced doctors are available in urban areas. People who live in urban areas may have more opportunities to receive better treatments. Rural hospitals have fewer resources and less funding than urban hospitals, so urban hospitals can purchase more advanced medical equipment for patients [6]. With the advancement in communication and networking technologies, people who live in rural can access the internet to connect primitive rural healthcare centers to well advanced modern urban setups and thereby provide better consultation and diagnostic care to the needy people.
In recent years, portable electronics and wireless technologies have grown rapidly in medical networking. Wireless communication is always a fascination for the medical community through its ability to remove cables, which hinder patient mobility, from health monitoring equipment [6].Wireless communication technologies with low power electronics provide flexible monitoring. For example, cardiac patients can save on hospital bills if they could bring home a portable hand-held electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor. The data could be transferred to the hospital using wireless technology and Bluetooth wireless technology can be used to transfer ECG signals from a small device to a PC in the household which transmits the data through the internet to the hospital network [6]. Thus, through telemedicine, the medical system breaks the geographic and time limitation; by using wireless technology, it builds a bridge between rural and urban district hospitals to share medical resources and experience.
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Cisco reports an amazing statistic that there are more than one hundred million wireless users in the world and more than one million wireless access points have sold. Apple has stopped building laptops with Ethernet ports due to the popularity of wireless networks. As wireless technology continues to advance, hospitals more and more have started using it for emergency care. WiMAX emergency systems can help emergency room doctors diagnose patients’ conditions and provide medical instruction during ambulance transportation. Lives have been saved because of this technology and more lives will be saved in both urban and rural hospital networks.
As we have seen in the statistics as well as the examples, wireless technology is not only a helpful tool for institutions in the medical field but increasingly it’s become necessary.
Cardiac monitoring has been available since the early 1960s (Henriques-Forsythe, Ivonye, Jamched, Kamuguisha, Olejeme & Onwuanyi, 2009). George, Walsh-Irwin, Queen, Vander Heuvel, Hawkins, & Roberts (2015) explain, “Remote telemetry monitoring is the monitoring of cardiac rhythms of acute care inpatients from a central locate by personnel who are not directly involved with patient care” (p. 11). Researchers and authors published a multitude of articles, best practices, and standards for hospital monitoring (Drew, 2004, Funk, 2010). A basic internet query reveals injuries and deaths related to remote telemetry monitoring. Guidelines, best practices, and research provide the best evidence in the delivery of safe quality care
The author’s sources support the conclusion that innovations in health technology will help improve patient care. Using not only Dr. Martin but others who are being trained in the field such as Sean Hayes, a Baylor MB/Healthcare/MSIS candidate, who in the article spoke of how a physician can be patched in by video and do a distance consult, which he saw as cost sharing in rural areas at may not be able to afford
The placement of implantable chips into patients for the purpose of accurately identifying patients and properly storing their medical history records has become a subject of a strong debate. Making sure patients are properly identified before a procedure and storing their health history records for future use has been difficult, if not impossible. The idea of being able to retrieve accurate patient’s medical history for a follow up care without relying on patient’s memory is a challenging task for many healthcare organizations. Many ideas and technologies have been introduced over the years to help solve this problem, but unfortunately the problem is still not fully resolved. There are still many errors in the healthcare due in part by improper record keeping and inaccurate patient identification. One idea that has being in discussion to eliminate these problems for good, is the introduction of a chip or radio frequency identification (RFID) technology implanted into human for the purpose storing medical data and accurately identify patients. VeriChip Corporation is currently the maker of this implantable RFID chip. They are the only corporation cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make this implantable radio frequency transponder system for humans for the purpose of identifying patients and storing their health history information. The chip was first developed for the use of radar systems by Scottish physicist, Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt in 1935 just before World War II. (Roberti, 2007). This technology helps identify approaching planes of the enemy from mile away. Today, RFID has several uses. It is used for animal tracking. It is attached to merchandise in stores to prevent theft. It can be instal...
Among the main aims of health care reform and improvement is expanding healthcare access to different populations, which have been subjects to underserving for a long period. These include the poor, the previously uncovered, rural societies, and the minorities, to mention just a few. Great challenges definitely lie ahead, since several individuals start seeking access to the primary healthcare clinicians (Arnaert & Delesie, 2001). Telenursing assures to be a crucial tool to meet such needs. It refers to making use of the telehealth technology in conducting nursing practice and delivering nursing care. Because of the quick telemedicine technology adoption within the healthcare institutions, telenursing emerges as a fresh tool that provokes discussions
...uys out. In conclusion, a warning, technology is there to guide and help a physician it is not, nor has it ever been intended to replace the physician patient relationship.
Often the biggest barriers to accessing healthcare are cost and location. Lower income individuals just do not have the resources to have optimal healthcare, or cannot take the time away from employment to deal with health issues. One potential solution to help with these problems could be “telehealth.” Telehealth allows a lower level healthcare practitioner to communicate with a physician or specialists when necessary. Remote rural areas use a Physician Assistant or a Nurse Practitioner on location in remote areas. When procedures call for a physician, an internet or satellite link provides a teleconference with a physician who can prescribe appropriate treatment (Gangon, Duplantie, Fortin & Landry 2006). This could be implemented in lower income urban areas, allowing free clinics to lower costs, and require fewer physicians.
Telehealth is the act of providing healthcare through the utilization of information/data processes and electric communication technology; it is used when a medical professional cannot meet with his or her patient due to distance related issues. The foremost goal of Telehealth is to ameliorate healthcare by delivering it to people who live in rural areas far away from a doctor, as well as mitigating expenditures for the patient. In addition, telehealth can eliminate social, cultural barriers, as well as stigmas when delivering health care. There are many tools/devices that are used for communication such as telephones, computers, fax machines, and interactive multimedia. Accordingly, through the equipment listed, Telehealth conveys patients’ healthcare data through telecommunication links via personal computer’s, imaging
As mobile medical clinics can’t always have the availability to treat all those in need. Medical facilities are becoming more widespread over places and now making mobile medical clinics obsolete. I feel that there still is a need for mobile medical as even though there are medical facilities available, transportation is not always possible for some people to use these facilities. Concentration on the technology and offering the best possible care should be the main focus rather than worrying about a particular combination of conditions that could emerge that would render the MMCs obsolete. This focus would encourage the expansion of the mobile medical
Telemedicine can make specialty care more accessible to rural and medically underserved communities and can easily connect providers a...
The propose research will address a problem confronting many two year institutions in the present-day (i.e. how to best plan, design, and implement WLAN technologies). While WLAN technologies offer the benefits of mobility, reduced installation time, and decreased cost, many challenges must be met by institutions deploying them (Geier, 2005). These issues are related to security, speed, interoperability, and equipment selection, ease of use, reliability, signal interference, installation, and health risks.
ED volumes are not the prime element of overcrowding, ED overcrowding as a condition in which the identified need for emergency services exceeds available resources in the ED, and this situation happens in hospital EDs when there are more patients coming to the Ed than staffed, treatment beds and waiting times outstrip a reasonable period (Barish, Mcgauly & Arnold, 2012). Mobile health (mHealth) is described as the use of mobile and wireless technologies for many health purposes (Ventola, 2014). Researchers and representatives consider mHealth has the ability to enhance health care delivery and outcomes, offer a platform for customized medicine, and support patients in disease management (Ventola,
The world has gone through a lot of changed as time passes by. With advancements in the technological field people are can communicate with ones from around the world without having to even lift a finger. To make things more efficient and more cost saving industries have made technology wireless. Wireless technology gives people the chance to get up from their stationary computer, or cord phone and able to freely move without restrictions. The IT, or Information Technology has become a standard and very critical part of today’s society. Wireless technology came from the basic just cellular usage to sensors in the medical field. Wires are now a thing of the past in today’s world with forever revitalizing technology.
Wireless is everywhere today whether at home working from your WIFI network to work where you might be linked a wireless network or even through your phone through a 3G or 4G network to connecting to an open wireless networks. As you can see for the most part people are connecting to wireless from the moment they leave their home till they get to work and then back. While wireless comm...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been shown to be increasingly important in the education or training and professional practice of healthcare. This paper discusses the impacts of using ICT in Healthcare and its administration. Health Information technology has availed better access to information, improved communication amongst physicians, clinicians, pharmacists and other healthcare workers facilitating continuing professional development for healthcare professionals, patients and the community as a whole. This paper takes a look at the roles, benefits of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in healthcare services and goes on to outline the ICT proceeds/equipment used in the health sector such as the
Imagine the ability to obtain healthcare services from almost anywhere in the world where you have access to a phone or computer. Now, imagine being able to provide nursing assessments, diagnosis, treatments, and recommendations to your patients from your home to almost anywhere in the world. Lauren Stokowski (2008) noted in her article that one fourth of the United States has rural residents. That number may appear small in comparison to the urban residences; however, rural residents have a tendency to to have “higher poverty rates, larger percentage of elderly, and tend to be in poorer health”. Could telenursing be a solution?