Telemedicine has changed the healthcare sectors in terms of providing medical devices and services with the help of technological innovations in telecommunication and wireless connectivity. It is an advance communication platform which mainly allows healthcare providers to offer clinical healthcare services to patients, even at distant place. It is a delivery of clinical services to overcome distance barrier between patient and healthcare professionals. Services providers and healthcare company uses telecommunication technology to evaluate, diagnose and treat patient in remote location. This allows healthcare professionals to provide quick and efficient medical expertise to patients at remote locations without even travelling.
Telemedicine solutions are subdivided into three types, store-and-forward telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and real-time encounters telemedicine. With the help of store-and-forward telemedicine, patient medical information such as lab reports, imaging studies, videos, and other records can be easily shared with a physician, radiologist, or specialist at another location. It is done using software with a sophisticated security features to ensure patient safety. Remote patient monitoring allows healthcare professionals to track a patient’s health reports or diagnosis status at a distance. This type of monitoring is often used for the management of high-risk patients with heart conditions and people who have recently been released from the hospital. Real-time telemedicine encounter allows patients and healthcare providers to use video conferencing software to hear and see each other. These are used to enhance traditional in-person visits of patients and doctors in real-time. These are mainly used for primary care, follow-up visits, and the management of medications and in treatment of chronic illness.
With changing life style of people there is a strong tendency that patients are more concerned in monitoring their own health. With this changing attitude, leading telemedicine service providers offer various healthcare solutions and packages. It mainly uses smartphone applications, passive monitoring equipment and advance wearable devices to monitor patient health status. These real time telemedicine services enable to provide alert services in emergency situations. However, high infrastructural cost and data privacy issues in telemedicine is a concern for the telemedicine market.
The new cloud-based telemedicine solution enables healthcare providers to consult with patients remotely. Physicians can perform on-demand consultations with members nationwide through telephone or video conferencing. This enables patients in seeking advice, recommendations and a diagnosis form healthcare professional, it may include a prescription for common acute illnesses. The US trends suggests that telemedicine market growth has been driven by the implementation of the Obama administration's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This act is meant to focus on telemedicine which enable in treating an increasing number of people who will be seeking health insurance and medical services. With advancement in telemedicine technology, quick treatment of the patient will be done easily in remote areas and enable healthcare personnel in meeting the increasing demand of diagnostic. The telemedicine industry is at the tipping point of going mainstream, supported by cohesive government policies and shortage of primary care physicians and nurses, aging baby boomers and so forth.
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