TELEHEALTH SERVICES

Telehealth is an interactive audio and video telecommunication system that permits real-time communication between the patient at the originating site and the physician or practitioner at the distant site substitutes for an in-person encounter. In recent years, many mobile health devices and other web-based tools have been developed in support of monitoring, observation, and collaboration for people living with chronic disease.

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Benefits of Telehealth Services:

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1. Saves time for both doctors and patients

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Telehealth goes a long way in helping save time. People who live with a disability can attest to this. Usually, it takes a long time driving to see doctors that are not conveniently located to receive their latest test results. This process can easily be done through a video consultation. Telehealth gives room to collaborate and communicate online.

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Telehealth technology has made it possible for the patients to stay in their home. Supervision can be done through use of telehealth. When patients are close to home, recovery is faster. In addition, children miss out less school time if a doctor through telehealth can see them. It is effective and fast. Patients who opt to forego treatment due to reasons such as time saving and money can receive healthcare through telehealth. Telehealth reduces unnecessary admissions and re-admissions to hospitals.

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2. Helps doctors manage patient’s conditions effectively

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Telehealth allows remote specialists to determine whether a patient will need to be transferred to another health facility or they can remain where they are. This will allow the patients to manage their health conditions more effectively at their own personal support network. If the patient can have access to internet, then they can easily access doctors through web conferencing and have professional doctor instructions passed to them. Telehealth benefits are made possible by such technological innovations.

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3. Helps clinicians access patient readings any time they need them

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Clinicians have access to patient readings any time they need them. Telehealth technology allows doctors to keep these records and access them whenever they need them. This increases the efficiency of the service provided by the clinicians. This also greatly reduces the instances that clinicians misdiagnose their patients due to either having the wrong patient readings or even losing them fully. Patient readings can help clinicians do proper follow ups to their patients and even ensure that they vastly improve their health and prevent any other negative health occurrences that may have taken place to proceed on.

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4. Enables patients understand their condition more

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Telehealth enables patients to understand their condition. Telehealth involves use of the internet. The internet is a broad tool that contains many links to various different information. The internet is also very user friendly and on a search platform such as google, patients can type in what they are feeling and the search engine will convey to them results that match their symptoms. This goes a long way in helping the patients understand more about their conditions.

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Additionally, the patients can also access home remedies that may help them control their condition. This helps the patient feel better and is a benefit of telehealth nursing. Other than studying their symptoms on the internet, web conferencing can also be part of the solution that the patients might need. If a patient does not have the knowledge to search their condition online, they can organize an online meeting with their doctor and their condition will be explained to them more and in a professional manner. Indeed, this is a prolific telehealth benefit.

 

5. Helps health facilities attend to more patients

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For the health facilities, telehealth has made it possible for hospitals to attend to more patients. This is because many patients opt to stay at the comfort of their homes. Though the patients do not show up physically to the hospitals, they still get the vital services they need. This leads to freeing up of capacity in the hospitals thus resulting to better, faster and more efficient service delivery by the hospitals.