How Telehealth can improve Healthcare accessibility
Accessibility is a valuable factor people put in consideration before availing any service, the same factor is applied to Healthcare. The term 'Telehealth' was introduced by the combination of Technology & Healthcare. Telehealth technology leverages the power of digital information and communication devices -- those such as computers, smartphones and tablets to provide quality of life improvements which, is perhaps the main point of telehealth benefits. Telehealth Services: Telehealth services include topics such as Patient Portals, Virtual Appointments and Remote Monitoring. Patient Portals are places where with the help of web-based services or telehealth applications, patients can log onto their own profile and access their medical reports through the dashboard, this dashboard is also accessible to the doctors under whom the patient is being taken care of, the patient can even communicate and schedule appointments with the doctors through the use of patient portals. Virtual Appointments enable the patient to interact with a doctor through the means of video conferencing or even perform virtual 'visits' by logging on the web-based service. Remote Patient Monitoring enables the doctors to remotely monitor their patients health status through the use of telehealth applications by inputing of the health information by the patients on these applications. The benefits of telehealth go beyond these but there are also several drawbacks included with it. To learn more, read this case study we have written keeping telehealth companies in mind: https://www.osplabs.com/case-study/telehealth/
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