Telemedicine

What is Telemedicine

• Telemedicine is the use of medical information using electronic communication to improve a patient's clinical health status...

How Does Telemedicine Work?

• Telemedicine works using the internet, satelite, wireless, and telephone media.

Why is Telemedcine used??

• Telemedicine is used by physicians to get recomendation and consultations
• Telemedicine is used for medical education
• Telemedicine is used to monitor patients in a critical care setting
• Telemedicine is used to obtain health information

Benefits of Telemedicine

• The benefits of telemedicine:
• Improve healthcare access
• Improve healthcare quality
• Faster consulations
• Improve patient outcomes

Disadvantages of telemedicine

• Not used well for assessment of a patient
• Equipment may malfunction
• Physician may lack the knowledge about how to use telemedicine

History of telemedicine

• Telemedicine started around the 1960s when NASA used in the space program.

Telemedicine in Critical Care

• Telemedicine is used in the critical care setting to monitor the status of the patients

Telemedicine in the ICU

References

• What is telemedicie (2012). Retrieved form www.americantelemed.org
• Lilly, C., Fisher, K., and Ries, M. (2012). A National ICU Telemedicine Survey. Vol 42, issue 1. (pg 41-42)