Question

Imagine you work for a health care organization and have been asked to develop a proposal on how the organization might adopt a technology trend to improve the quality of the health care delivered to organization members.

Select and research two technology trends. Examples of technology trends:

• Telemedicine
• Optical imagery for diagnosing disease
• Electronic health records
• Telehealth
• Video translation services
• Dictation services (e.g., Dragon NaturallySpeaking)
• Medical equipment
• Health care robots
• Neural engineering
• Intelligent mobile devices
• National health care information network
• A technology trend approved by your faculty

Answer 1

Tele -medicine

Tele medicine is a fast growing and important component of health care delivery system .The main objectives of tele medicine is to cross the geographical barriers and provides health care facilities to rural and remote areas. Tele -medicine help the physician to treat the patient when ever the care required and wherever the patient is with the help of a telecommunication technologies. such as computer or a smart phone .

Benefits of tele medicine

- Tele medicine help to improve access to quality health services by eliminating distance barrier .

- The prior appointment is not required , and the one can save money and time.

-Medical help when transportation of patient is undesirable and not fesible

- it help to facilitate access of specialist advice and support to rural population and practitioners.

- It lessen the cost and inconvenience in health care or patient refferal

- The patient can schedule the visiting time during the break or before or after the duty hours ,it offer a sufficient privacy and can follow the doctors instruction without missing a day of work.

-it also help to prevent getting cross infection, there are lots of people come in to the doctor office with different disease condtion,by staying home help to avoid such situations.

-it provides a welfare care services to vulnerable segment of society by tertiary level medical proffessionals..it act as a revolutionary tool of health management information system.

National health care information network

The health care information network is a e- health exchange. it is an initiative for the exchange of all heath care informations including data collection ,processing ,reporting and use of the information necessary for improving health service effectiveness and efficiency through better management at all level of health sevice.This network help to exchange the health information within the community and across the country. The national health care information network has a privacy and security for the patient data.