Medical Therapeutics

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Medical Therapeutics
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Today's Lesson
Tele-Health
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Standards

• 2.2 Evaluate the use of tele-health care in
  the delivery of health care in a clinical and
  home setting

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Why Tele-Health?
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• A world where people living in far-flung areas
  need not travel hundreds of miles to get
  specialty care that could save their lives?

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• A world where you will be treated in an emergency
  room by a nurse at your side and a physician at a
  distant emergency department?

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• A world where doctors and nurses in rural America
  can learn about new medical practices at the
  touch of a computer key?

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What is Tele-Health
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• Tele-health is the use of electronic information
  and telecommunications technologies to support
  long-distance clinical health care, patient and
  professional health-related education, public
  health and health .

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Equipment

• Telephone
• Webcam
• Video Conferencing
• Computers
• Internet
• Digital Imaging
• Satellite Technology
• Robotics

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It could be as simple as

• A physician uses email to communicate with
  patients, and drug prescriptions and other health
  services are being offered on the Web,
  'telehealth'

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• Tele-Control Devices

User Devices
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Emergency Room Robotics
Physicians Response Diagnosis on Robotic
Screen
Patient
ER Robot
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HOW?

• Two health professionals discussing a case over
  the telephone
• Or use satellite technology to broadcast a
  consultation between providers at facilities in
  two countries, using videoconferencing equipment
  or robotic technology.

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Simple
Complex
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Barriers

• Cost
• Insurances may not pay
• Training
• Reluctance to change
• Impersonal

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Benefits

• International institutions benefit from the
  latest and most advanced medical, research,
  educational and economic information available.
• Technological development of customized, creative
  tele-education programs.
• Worldwide transmission of electronic medical
  information, images, interactive diagnoses and
  real-time consultations.
• Communication enables specialists to receive,
  within a matter of minutes, patient reports and
  histories, pathology slides, X-rays and other
  radiological images for analysis from locations
  worldwide.
• Less cost for continuing education units.

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1 Benefit

• Coordination of care!

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Types

• Real Time Telehealth
• Telemental Health
• Telerehabilitation
• Telecardiology
• Teleneurology
• Robotics
• Animal Care

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International Links The American Telemedicine
Association CancerNet Drug Infonet Healthcare
Information and Management Systems Society
HospitalWeb The International Society for
Telemedicine The Journal of Telemedicine and
Telecare Radiological Society of North America
TelehealthNet Telemedicine Today Telemedicine
Information Exchange
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