What are some of the technical challenges of a telemedicine project?
Telemedicine projects have been successfully undertaken for over fifty years, from the most basic use of a telephone to transmit medical data to complex applications within the extreme environments of Earth.
Today, telemedicine enables physicians to provide opinions concerning a patient’s medical condition within a physically separated environment.
To prepare for this discussion, read the following in your course text Health Information: Management of Strategic Resource:
https://www.wolterskluwercdi.com/
http://legacy.americantelemed.org/home
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05
/09/AR2008050901866.html?noredirect=on
Consider the technical challenges and cost-saving benefits associated with telemedicine. Then, answer the following questions:
- What are some of the technical challenges of a telemedicine project?
- How might telemedicine-based services impact the overall cost of health care delivery? What cost savings can be realized with telemedicine in industries, both inside and outside of health care?
- How does the choice of telecommunications conduit, such as broadband, Wi-Fi Satellite, etc. affect what can be done through telemedicine? How have advances in computer- and network-related hardware impacted the spread of telemedicine projects worldwide?
- What might be a future application of telemedicine?