Question

Investigate the adoption and use of telemedicine and telehealth in your state. How is it being used? What benefits have been realized? What challenges or obstacles still exist? How important is telemedicine and telehealth in providing access to care? In improving quality of care? And in reducing costs?

Answer 1

Telehealth is distribution of health related services and innformation via electronic communication .

Telemedicine is the exchange of medical information from one location to another using electronic communication.

*Benefits of telehealth is

advances new business models

help the remote areas people,

improve patient engagement with remote monitoring,

care reaches more patientcuts patient cost

Improve healthcare quality

.*benefit of telemedicine

Cost effectiveness and healthcare savings

Extended specialist and referring physician access

Technical training and equipment.

$$$ obstaclea or challenges in telemedicine

Reimburemnet

lack of integration

lack of sufficient data for care and continuity

service awareness

patient lack of technical skill

expensive technology.

$$$obstacles in telehealth

Reimbursemnet

Limited acess smartphone

Limited acess to internet connection

Lack of awareness mainy remote areas.

%%how to improve quality

Set goals and participat3 patient engagemnrt .Long term care management ,patient satisfaction help to improve quality .

##HOW TO REDUCE COST

* by offering telemedicine apoinment

*at home triage services

*remote monitoring technologies