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Framework for Handling Medical Data in Research
Published in Rishabha Malviya, Pramod Kumar Sharma, Sonali Sundram, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Balamurugan Balusamy, Bioinformatics Tools and Big Data Analytics for Patient Care, 2023
Telemedicine has been around for more than 40 years, but it is only now, with the introduction of virtual video seminars, cellphones, and wireless devices, that it has reached full coloration. The theory refers to the use of technology to provide distant experimental facilities. More precise applications include telesurgery, in which clinicians can employ robots to perform surgery, and high-speed real-time data transfer, short of actually being present at the patient’s location [47]. Clinicians use telemedicine to offer tailored management programs and prevent readmission to hospital. As previously mentioned, the use of healthcare data analytics is frequently tied to predictive analytics. This enables clinicians to anticipate acute medical occurrences and intervene before patients’ circumstances deteriorate [49]. Telemedicine helps to save expenses and enhance service quality by keeping patients away from hospitals. Patients can avoid long queues, while specialists can save on time-consuming paperwork and consultations. Telemedicine also increases the accessibility of care because patients’ conditions can be observed and referred to at any time [49].
Reforms and Resiliency Mechanisms
Published in Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire, Global Strategic Challenges, 2022
Telemedicine refers to the use of telecommunication technologies for the delivery of health services to people at a distance from the practitioner. Remote medicine has been shown to have several benefits. These include improving efficiency and quality of care, reducing inequities in access to care, saving patients time and transportation costs, and increasing individualization of care (Cravo Oliveira Hashiguchi, 2020). Despite a number of initiatives, the practice of telemedicine remains limited and lagging in several countries. However, the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrated that things can change quickly. The emergency laws passed at the end of March 2020 relaxed the regulations on the practice of telemedicine and changed the rate of reimbursement by the social security system to 100 percent instead of the previous 70 percent, with the remaining 30 percent being covered by supplementary insurance. This change has led to a dramatic increase in the number of teleconsultations.
Telemedicine (e-Health, m-Health)
Published in Teena Bagga, Kamal Upreti, Nishant Kumar, Amirul Hasan Ansari, Danish Nadeem, Designing Intelligent Healthcare Systems, Products, and Services Using Disruptive Technologies and Health Informatics, 2023
Mauparna Nandan, Soma Mitra, Antara Parai, Rituraj Jain, Meena Agrawal, Umesh Kumar Singh
Thus, the significance of telemedicine lies in the optimisation of all possible existing healthcare systems and for the development of efficient, in-time, standard, patient-oriented healthcare worldwide. Telemedicine encompasses healthcare services like disease diagnosis, treatment and proper monitoring of patients, delivering expert advice to patients and enhancing the knowledge base of patients as shown in Figure 1.1. Apart from these, telemedicine also includes services like teleradiology or telepathology beyond the conventional medical facilities [5].
Multidisciplinary efforts in combating nonadherence to medication and health care interventions: Opportunities and challenges for operations researchers
Published in IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2021
Aditya M. Prakash, Carlos Vega, Vakaramoko Diaby, Xiang Zhong
The past decade has witnessed the advent of electronic health records (EHRs), the emerging use of patient-generated health data in clinical research, and the birth of telemedicine and telemonitoring technology in healthcare delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has further propelled the adoption of telemedicine. Payers are increasingly extending insurance coverage toward telemedicine encounters. Medicare has expanded its coverage of telehealth services, offering the patients the ability to interact with wide range of providers (Medicare & Coronavirus, 2021). The time is opportune for an increasing application of engineering-based methods in understanding the adherence behavior and its dynamics, from the patient level to the healthcare system level to harvest the strength from different disciplinary areas. These methods can assist in identifying risk factors, providing intervention recommendations, eliciting a better adherence pattern from patients, and establishing the economic and health impact on patients. Patients’ nonadherence behavior in the literature pertains mainly to medication nonadherence. However, a strong case can also be made for nonadherence to aspects other than medication including smoking cessation (Koçak & Aktürk, 2019), exercise programs (Robison & Rogers, 1994), and other treatment regimens in general (Martin et al., 2005). Actions to curb nonadherence behaviors in general can exert a significant positive impact on the cost burden of the healthcare system and bring about improved patient outcomes. Therefore, in addition to chronic disease management, this paper will also discuss the consequences of nonadherence in other areas, for instance, nonadherence to behavioral intervention and health screening.
Telemedicine in patients with peripheral arterial disease: is it worth the effort?
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2019
Marjolein E. Haveman, Simone F. Kleiss, Kirsten F. Ma, Cornelis G. Vos, Çağdaş Ünlü, Richte C.L. Schuurmann, Reinoud P.H. Bokkers, Hermie J. Hermens, Jean-Paul P.M. De Vries
In conclusion, the use of telemedicine in PAD patients is still an under-explored area. Owing to its high potential to improve physical ability, lifestyle coaching, and detection of deterioration in these patients, future research should focus on the proper implementation of telemedicine in PAD patients, including clinical, feasibility, nurses’ workload, and cost-efficiency outcome measures. Over the next years, accompanied by technological improvements, telemedicine will be integrated into many fields of health care, reinforcing the tendency toward personalized medicine, facilitating the migration of care toward home, and inhibiting rising health-care costs.
Towards a physical rehabilitation system using a telemedicine approach
Published in Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization, 2020
Ivan Ruiz, Juan Contreras, Jose Garcia
Telemedicine has been used to solve problems related to the diagnosis, results review, monitoring of patients with chronic diseases and medical appointments. The use of this concept has changed the centralised medical model because of advances in information technology. The execution of a certain clinical protocol requires a registry of information, the telemedicine proposals are mainly oriented to make the information available independently of the time and geographical location of the patient or the health professional.