Question

Describe the "project assumptions" you have identified in your Logic Model about inadequate resource allocation in regard to telemedicine. Why have you made these assumptions? What evidenced exists to support your assumptions?

Answer 1

Telemedicine refers to the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically present with each other. modern technology has enabled doctors to consult patients by video conferencing tools.

Affordability, accessibility, availability, and quality of health care services have always been burning issue for the mankind. the issue of health care is always crucial for government and countries irrespective of their financial status. continious efforts are being made by policy makers,administrators, and researchers to provide quality health care to the people at the cost that they can afford, developed countries have adopted many alternative tools and technologies to leverage the supply of good health care , but quality and cost of health care are still big issues in these countries. developing countries are far behind in adopting technology to reduce the cost and improve the quality of health care. telemedicine has emderged as a new hope to remove the bottlenecks in the healthcare seeking. developing countries have adopted telemedicine technology in a hurry without proper planning and stratergy.

Increasing population in the developing countries has created more demand of health care. demand of affordable and quality healthcare is increasing day by day. rapid demand at the global level for the healthcare management is increasing over the past few decades, increasing emphasis on healthcare quality. people in poor countries have less access of health care and poor have even less access of health care services within the country. assessing the appropriate health care and improving the quality of care have been a serious issue in developing countries has been neglected and attention is only given to technical aspects than the interpersonal components.

There are many barriers like geographical access, availability, affordability, and acceptability to access the health care in developing countries. these barriers become more problematic to women , children, old, and physically handicapped population. even though the health service provision and the geographical access have improved, local women may not use the sevices unless the provided services meet their demands in quality and cultural manners. to overcome the barriers , healthcare sector is now using telemedicine solutions to increase the reach of its services to population. the telemedicine is gradually coming up as a viable policy option for the government in developing countries.

Telemedicine is the use of electronic communication and information technologies to provide clinical servises when participants are different locations. telehealth is used to encompass a broader application of technologies to distance education, health promotion, preventive services, consumer outreach, and other applications where in electronic communications and information technologiesn are used to support health care services.

telemedine helps in patient education, health promotion, disease self management, decrease in healthcare costs, and remote monitoring of patients and can improve healthcare delevery for developing countries.

It was expected that telemedicine will reduce the burden of hospitals, suffering of patients, out of pocket expenditure, need of transport, hospitalfear, and save the time and money of general public. it was also expected that it will increase the quality of care and will develop the trust among patients toward telehealth care system.

licensing ensure that physicians meet academic and clinical competence standars for the telemedicine practice, it protects public from unqualified and substandard physicians and health care proffesional.

Need for a prior written or verbal informed consent for any telemedicine consultation and treatment misrepresents telemedicine as a different from of service, rather than as a useful tool that enhances giagnostic and treatment services.

healthcare in developing countries is in the midst of a paradigm shift, from a traditional provider -centered, disease- oreanted apprroach to a patient centered, health- management model. telemedicine has influenced almost all aspects of healthcare and many success stories have reported the role of telemedicine in improving healthcare access, reducing cost of care, and enhancing the quality of care, telemedicine could be an important tool in achieving healthcare coordination and reducing healthcare disparities.