Question

Define connectivity and telecommunications network. What are the advantages of connectivity?

Note: question is in the context of IT in the medical field.

from a class called Healthcare and IT

Answer 1

Connectivity and Telecommunications:

Connectivity can defined as the ability to make a connection between two or more points in a network. Tele communication Networks are the systems for transmitting the information in a digital or an analogue form by means of optical or electromagnetic signals, between various different sites. Audio or video data or some other type of data can be transmitted for information exchange or communication.

Advantages of connectivity :

* Secure and reliable telecommunication network can increase patient safety.

* Increases clinician's efficiency to practice

* Decreases the medical errors and protects the safety

* A well working healthcare IT team and a good connectivity can significantly reduces the communication errors between health team members.

* Effective collaboration of patient care is possible between healt team members .

* ' Real time Monitoring' facility can be benefited for the patient in case of any medical emergencies such as hear attack.

* Secure network ensures secure data transmission.

* Complex images can easily strore , acess and transmit to make diagnosis.

* With good connectivity the patient can schedule for web consultation with Doctors.

* With a high speed network, Doctor can see the patient face to face inspite of far locations. Doctor can watch any visual symptoms clearly through the video.

* No jitter will be there if there is a good nework connectivity and video, audio and the images are at high resolution.