Incorporating Technology In Health Care Essay
Incorporating technology in health care has positive effect on efficiency and access of patient data and service provision. Some of the innovation in place and will continue to grow include:
Teleconsultation: Use of 24/7 teleconsultation is a safe, highly valued and effective means of delivering clinical support to people with COPD and care home residents, which leads to a substantial reduction in the need for both hospital admissions and Emergency Department attendances” (Pope, R., 2013). In this study, patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) were monitored from their home which resulted to improved care outcome and reduced hospital visits and admission. Teleconsultation is bound to grow even further in the next 15 years …show more content…
Currently, we have to ask the patients what medication they are on. Unfortunately some of the patient do not know their medication or the dosage. With continued innovation, this information will be accessible to the patient and the provider thus increasing compliance to treatment and care outcome. The challenge today is that there are different programs in use and the information is not shared beyond the institution and some of the users such as doctor’s office are still in the initial implementation stage (Meigs, S. l. & Solomon, M. 2016). There is need to agree on a shared minimum patient data that can be accessed in any care facility that the patient visits thus reduce medication errors such as administration of medication that patient is allergic to and was not updated on the accessed data. I see this happening in the next 5 years.
Meigs, S. l. & Solomon, M., (2016). Electronic Health Record Use a Bitter Pill for Many Physicians. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 1-17 17p. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9cfbb8c2-e0b5-4e5b-89d8-b1d3ef6613c1%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4210
Pope, R., Muchan, M., Malin, R., Binks, R., & Wagner, A. (2013).
Teleconsultation: Use of 24/7 teleconsultation is a safe, highly valued and effective means of delivering clinical support to people with COPD and care home residents, which leads to a substantial reduction in the need for both hospital admissions and Emergency Department attendances” (Pope, R., 2013). In this study, patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) were monitored from their home which resulted to improved care outcome and reduced hospital visits and admission. Teleconsultation is bound to grow even further in the next 15 years …show more content…
Currently, we have to ask the patients what medication they are on. Unfortunately some of the patient do not know their medication or the dosage. With continued innovation, this information will be accessible to the patient and the provider thus increasing compliance to treatment and care outcome. The challenge today is that there are different programs in use and the information is not shared beyond the institution and some of the users such as doctor’s office are still in the initial implementation stage (Meigs, S. l. & Solomon, M. 2016). There is need to agree on a shared minimum patient data that can be accessed in any care facility that the patient visits thus reduce medication errors such as administration of medication that patient is allergic to and was not updated on the accessed data. I see this happening in the next 5 years.
Meigs, S. l. & Solomon, M., (2016). Electronic Health Record Use a Bitter Pill for Many Physicians. Perspectives in Health Information Management, 1-17 17p. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.lopes.idm.oclc.org/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9cfbb8c2-e0b5-4e5b-89d8-b1d3ef6613c1%40sessionmgr4005&vid=1&hid=4210
Pope, R., Muchan, M., Malin, R., Binks, R., & Wagner, A. (2013).