Transcript File - Harpeth High School Health Science

Standards
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2.2 Evaluate the use of tele-health care in
the delivery of health care in a clinical
and home setting
A world where
people living in farflung areas need
not travel
hundreds of miles
to get specialty
care that could
save their lives?
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?
A world where doctors
and nurses in rural
America can learn about
new medical practices at
the touch of a computer
key?
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 .
Telephone
Webcam
Video Conferencing
Computers
Internet
Digital Imaging
Satellite Technology
Robotics
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'
Tele-Control Devices
Emergency Room Robotics
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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Cost
Insurances may not pay
Training
Reluctance to change
Impersonal
Benefits
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International institutions benefit from the latest and
most advanced medical, research, educational and
economic information available.
Technological development of customized, creative teleeducation 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.
#1 Benefit
Coordination of care!
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