What is Telemedicine

Publish Year: 1398
نوع سند: مقاله کنفرانسی
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 29 مهر 1398

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Telemedicine is known as a tool that makes healthcare more ac-cessible, cost-effective, and that increases patient engagement. The World Health Organization (WHO) refers to telemedicine as healing from a distance . It is the use of telecommunica-tions technology and information technologies to provide re-mote clinical services to patients. Physicians and patients can share information in real time from one computer screen to an-other. And they can even see and capture readings from medical devices at a faraway location What is Telemedicine Healthcare Telemedicine is simply defined as, the remote delivery of healthcare services . There are 3 common types of telemedi-cine, which include but not limited to:• Interactive Medicine • Store and Forward• Remote Patient Monitoring How is it Conducted Telemedicine is conducted in a number of ways. The most basic is just a simple video call (like you normally do with family and friends), however most countries required secured HIPAA com-pliant video conference tool, so telemedicine company such as VSee also provides this kind of secure and simple to use solu-tion for providers.Top 8 Telemedicine Benefits • Increase Revenue• See More Patients • Convenience • Cost Saving • Get a quick 2nd opinion • Patients love it • Improved healthcare quality • More Intelligent Solution The Role of Telehealth in Medical Tourism Telehealth, also known as telemedicine, is the remote provision of health care services enabled by technology. A continuum of successful telehealth applications has been demonstrated over the last twenty years, ranging from the transmission of digital photographs and patient histories for diagnostic consultation, to remote monitoring of physiologic data for chronic disease management, to interactive patient physical examination using medical video endoscopes and ultrasound over high-definition videoconferencing links. The common tie among these varied applications is that technology is used to improve access to health care services independent of geography.Telehealth can improve quality, efficiency and customer ser-vice in medical tourism applications by better coordination of care between providers in patients’ home and foreign countries, enhanced preoperative and postoperative care, and optimizing patient and family member travel. This article describes the ba-sic principles and applications of telehealth and explores the potential roles and challenges of telehealth in medical tourism.

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M Zarrabi

Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran