Subject: Health Information Management Systems Title: Remote Patient Monitoring Systems Your task: Locate on the Internet one specific application of remote patient monitoring (telehealth) or telemed
HIM Systems Week 9 Lesson Content & Rubric
This week we are focusing on technology and systems that can help patients be more responsible for their health. You will learn terms such as telemedicine, tele-health, and e-health applications. Be sure to watch the video within your lesson content tab!
For your assignment, you will do an Internet search for applications related to telemedicine. Be sure to follow the directions! There are certain elements that you must include in your submission.
Your rubric for this week is below.
Module 09 Written Assignment - Remote Patient Monitoring Systems
Scoring Rubric:
| Criteria | Points |
| Paper is 1-2 pages in length. | |
| Paper describes the application. | |
| Paper identifies the sorts of technology that are used to achieve it. | |
| Paper identifies the types of patients or healthcare to which it could apply. | 10 |
| Paper takes into account one benefit to patient or provider as a result of the identified use of telehealth or telemedicine | 10 |
| Paper identifies and cites outside source(s) and is free of spelling and grammar errors. | |
| Total | 40 |
Lesson Content
Telemedicine, Tele-health, and E-health Applications
Consumers who are accustomed to growing convenience in other sectors and purchases are seeking greater accessibility and convenience for health care as well. Patients are more willing to visit clinics with evening and weekend hours, including in retail settings or rapid-type clinics for minor health care problems. The busy lives of consumers limit the amount of time they can spend waiting. Portability of their medical record via development of a Personal Health Record can help maintain connections with their usual practitioners.
The population as it ages needs routine care for recurring and chronic conditions, which call for a great deal of self-management. Chronic lung diseases, cardiac conditions, diabetes and others are best managed on an ongoing basis. The patient who has to make daily decisions about medication frequency and dosages could use support.
Innovative systems are evolving for maintaining contact with persons having chronic conditions. This has the potential to keep clinic appointments open for more episodic and acute illnesses. When the patient is contacted remotely providing direction and education about their personal care, we call that practice tele-health or tele-care.
When a health practitioner communicates with a patient or another provider with enriched availability of information using communications technology, it is known as telemedicine. For example, a radiologist viewing digitized films remotely from home and submitting clinical reports via the internet is practicing a mode of telemedicine.
These applications have the ability to improve patient quality of care. To the extent they can reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, cost reductions may also exist over time.
Examples of Telemedicine
Teleradiology is one mode of telemedicine that has become widely used. Accessibility to private networks between hospitals, clinics and homes along with high-speed fiber optic lines, render the image quality comparable to onsite reading. The radiologist can rapidly view the images, form an opinion, and submit reports.
The American Telemedicine Association estimated more than 300,000 patient services of the Veterans Health Administration were delivered remotely in 2003 to its patients.
American Telemedicine Association (2011). What is Telemedicine?. Retrieved April 12, 2016 from http://www.americantelemed.org/safeonlinehealth/what-is-telemedicine-#.Vw0GlflViko
Adoption of telemedicine by publicly funded and operated clinics has proceeded relatively rapidly in sectors such as veteran's health care. This is due to fewer issues about determining coverage and payments than has been the case for private practitioners and insurance plans. Patient consent is another area
The applications of telemedicine are nearly as broad as medicine itself: Tele-cardiology, tele-dermatology, even tele-opthalmology have been described!
Adoption and Diffusion of Technology Applications
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| Watch this Telehealth demonstration of a patient receiving support and contact with a health practitioner over phone and internet lines. |
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| If you are unable to connect to the YouTube video, go to the YouTube website and search for "telehealth demonstration." |
Having watched this experience of a patient or client being able to transmit blood pressure and oxygen levels using simple communications technology, consider the effects on the quality of life of a person in frail health.
A number of telehealth applications do not require much sophistication of the consumer's ability to use computers, as you can see.
