Telmedicine
Title: Telmedicine
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 3068 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Telmedicine
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 3068 | Pages: 11 (approximately 235 words/page)
Telemedicine
PART A - What is telemedicine? Explain Contribution?
Telemedicine is increasingly cited as part of the emerging area of e-health for example:- the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT & the INTERNET) to provide health care. The World Health Organisation definition of telemedicine is: "The delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis,
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care and greater efficiency.
·<Tab/>Primary Care will experience the changes in the relationships with secondary care, the way that referrals can be made and how patients can be better supported at home.
Developing a multilevel approach will stimulate discussion of the issues and facilitate the development of services. It would be best driven by a co-operative partnership between government, health services, the professionals, industry and patients' representatives.