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How Telemedicine Makes “Data Driven Healthcare” Important

In the future, I believe patients and the doctors will interact through telemedicine, much like they do with other forms of technology: hardly cognizant of the technology involved, like those who use Skype, or FaceTime, or Facebook to keep up with friends. 

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How Telemedicine Makes “Data Driven Healthcare” Important

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  1. How Telemedicine Makes “Data Driven Healthcare” Important, Effective & a Real Advantage

  2. MIT’s Technology Review November Issue contained an article entitled “Data Driven Healthcare:  Can Technology Fix Medicine?”  In the comments section, some commenters began to make a case that they believe can begin to connect the dots between the patient, the doctors diagnosis and prescribed treatment.

  3. Julia Walden commented “The data is a good benchmark, but it all comes down to human interaction”; while Frank.Finkelstein.7 remarked, “The electronic medical record is designed to track “points” useful in billing.  If done in real time, it distracts the clinician, who can no longer keep eye contact with the patient.  If done at the end of the day, it’s an imposition on the clinician and subject to memory lapses.” Both points bring up how through the proper application of the Telemedicine—  as a secure, interactive, private virtual space for professionals and patients to interact— could solve both issues.

  4. How Telemedicine Can Help? • In the future, I believe patients and the doctors will interact through telemedicine, much like they do with other forms of technology: hardly cognizant of the technology involved, like those who use Skype, or FaceTime, or Facebook to keep up with friends.   As the interactions between the patient and the physician will be “real” and take place in real time, they should feel no different than the overwhelming reality experienced whilst using any of the other many technologies we use daily without thought. Just as the giant platforms we use such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter, track our every move, in real time, a telemedicine environment, when properly structured, can help track patient care and daily health. Of course, this demands security and privacy, and a process that ID-100228011ensures these are paramount. But the tools exist and can be engaged.

  5. Will it provide “good benchmark data?” – yes, almost assuredly it will provide far better data than what can be provided in the current medical structures we employ.  Will it improve human interaction? Yes, for certain issues (such as virtual dermatology symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, or cardiac monitoring, pre-natal “visits”, etc.) via private virtual spaces, the entire compendium of care can be addressed – with analytical data, at the micro patient level, and the physician interaction level, offering both the advantage of real time data capture, interaction and follow-up care.

  6. Will it offer equivalent “human interaction”?  Well, it will eliminate the inconvenience of a Doctor’s office visit, offer quicker responses, remove the “imposition” on the clinicians by extending the care across those available. Furthermore, it will provide better access that doesn’t demand a physical presence and specific time.  Much of today’s technology already eliminates this need, whether it be the privacy and convenience that 67% of the banking public now enjoy with electronic banking, or a visit from a friend who is far away. • In healthcare, time is typically of the essence.  It certainly is for the patient. Ever waited in line at an emergency room?  Timely interactions with medical professionals is high in demand, and a top priority for patients. This pressure to deliver is increasingly placed on clinicians and medical centres of treatment.  If this waiting time can be reduced, and availability extended via telemedicine, wouldn’t we all benefit?

  7. Yes it is true, a bone can’t be set over the computer screen, and a heart attack can’t be treated immediately on an iPhone, but that doesn’t preclude the many pre-admission, pre-office visit, point of care situations that from being improved, or completely handled. In fact, using telemedicine means that clinicians, patients and health care service providers receive better data from point of care to the process of care, so they can expedite the healing process for even these more extreme injuries and situations. • I don’t think the issue is whether or not “Data Driven Health Care” can “Fix Medicine”.  I believe it is how we integrate telemedicine and mHealth into the medical system that will provide us better processes for health care, better management of the patient, and clinician and clinical interaction.  And from there, we will learn  how to better manage, capture, analyse and improve our “check lists manifesto” for better care, cost containment and broader health care access.

  8. This is the mission of eHealth Global.  If you would like to comment or contact us about our applied research and structures in the field of specialty medicine and telemedicine, please don’t hesitate. We look forward to engaging with you. • For more information, please visit: http://ehealthglobal.com/

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