Drone and Telemedicine

Running head: DRONE TELEMEDICINE 1
Drone and Telemedicine
Fahad Noshili
University of San Diego
HCIN-554-01-SP19 Telehealth and Emerging Technology
M. Kurliand, MS BSN RN

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Table of Contents
Background and assessment.......................................................................................................3
Proposal......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5
Appendix A............................................................................................................................6
Appendix B............................................................................................................................7
Appendix C............................................................................................................................8

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Drone and Telehealth
Telemedicine systems are technologies that allow remote or virtual care of the patient,
allowing for a clinical diagnosis and prescriptions if needed through utilising the advanced
telecommunication technology. (Lee et al., 2015). Using drone as a strategic advancement of
telemedicine system could be very beneficial. Workflow analysis involves the systematic
visual representation of synchronised operations as intermediate and interconnected phases of
a large operational system (see Appendix A). In this paper, the existing workflow system of a
telehealth system will be assessed and a new recommendation for a drone-based telehealth
system will be presented along with a budget (see Appendix C).
Background and Assessment
Existing telehealth systems depends on two types of sub systems, namely
telemedicine and tele-diagnosis. Several surveys based primary researches have clearly found
that many flaws of the existing Telemedicine system are restricting the growth of the
consumer base (Dinesen et al., 2016). One of the major limitations of existing Telehealth
services is, in this system a consumer needs to visit the nearest medicine shop to have the
prescribed medicine, which creates an additional burden for the patient (Schwamm, 2014).
patients do not always pick up their medications and describe the impact of not taking meds
as prescribed on their health outcomes. Another problem is that is that patients do not have
transportation or are home bound and some of these medications especially antibiotics and
blood pressure medications need to be taken as soon as possible. It increases the total waiting
time for having a complete healthcare service with proper medication. A change in the
existing workflow is required to make the medication acquiring process ease for the patient
Proposal
To increase the efficiency two changes will be made in the existing system. The
purpose of this proposal is to minimise the time required to provide tele-health service,