Question

Virtual care and telehealth technologies have the capability to greatly expand access to quality health care. Discuss some benefits and drawbacks of virtual care/telehealth particularly related to the collaboration and coordination of care and the role of the advanced registered nurse. Please include your references.

Answer 1

Telehealth help us to reimaginate the doctor visit as a house call without travelling. Benefits of telehealth is as follows:

Telehealth improves patient engagement with remote monitoring. They promote new ways of interacting with patients to engage them in self care.
Telehealth expand access to care and reaches more patients. Patients in rural areas and outside health care facilities can be reached by this.

It improves clinical work flow and increases practice efficiency. Patient satisfaction scores can be increased by telehealth services.

It increases practice revenue and decrease practice overhead.
Telehealth cut the patient costs and improves health care quality.
Drawbacks:

For the provider it is too costly for the setting up of telehealth services in smaller health care units.

Telehealth can open up many treatment doors but it will not be as same as personal or face to face interactions.

certain types of illness cannot be handled through telehealth.
   Nurses work in different ways in telehealth services. Patient consultations are initiated by the assistance of a registered nurse. They monitors the equipment and the patient while checking vital signs and other tests. The information obtained is then sent to the physician review. This will enable early detection , treatment and improved care for the patient.
Reference: Brian Wu. What are the benefits and advantages of telemedicine. Healthline.com

Michael Grieve. Top 10 benefits of telehealth for patients and doctors. 2018. Ortholive.com

Nevada state college. The role of nurses in telemedicine.2018