Question

1) What is HITECH?

2) What are three types of virtual health care modalities?

3) How do you think telemedicine will shape future health policy?

Answer 1

1) The HITECH it is an Act that encourages healthcare providers to adopt electronic health records and improved privacy and security protections for healthcare data. This was achieved through financial incentives for adopting Electric health records and increased penalties for violations of the Privacy and Security of the patient.

2) -A)store and forward telemedicine

is a method by which healthcare providers share patient medical information like lab reports, imaging studies, videos, and other records with a physician, radiologist, or specialist at another location.

-B)remote patient monitoring

is a method that allows healthcare professionals to track a patient’s vital signs and activities at a distance. This type of monitoring is often used for the management of high-risk patients, like those with heart conditions and people who have recently been released from the hospital.

Useful in chronic condition

-C)real time telemedicine

patients and providers use video conferencing software to hear and see each other.

real-time telemedicine can be used in lieu of a trip to the doctor’s office in certain situations. It is popular for primary care, urgent care, follow-up visits, and the management of medications and chronic illness

3) Telemedicine helps to deliver clinical services at a distance.

It makes everything acheived at the finger tip

This reduces the chance of death, when the death is caused due to lack of availability of health care professional.

It helps in the management of chronic and palliative care from the home itself under the supervision of the specialist.