Tele Health: Improving Access to Quality Health Care in Rural Areas

Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS
System Analysis
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SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Problem..................................................................................................................................2
Capabilities.............................................................................................................................3
Benefits..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................5

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SYSTEM ANALYSIS
Introduction
Tele Health is a project introduced to improve access to quality health care in rural
public hospital or health service (Venter et al., 2012). The objectives of using this project of
Tele Health are to improve patient outcomes, drive greater efficiency in the way health care is
delivered and support the delivery of the quality health care across the state. People have to
travel from one to another or rather have to cross long distance for the treatment of the
patients. This even incurs huge cost, as they have to travel from one location to another
(Nagel, Pomerleau & Penner, 2013). It is assumed that the funding of the project, Tele Health
has been approved and the business systems analyst is assigned to scope out the project.
The following report outlines a brief description about the above mentioned case
study. The report helps to understand the specific problem for which the project named, Tele
Health is introduced (Keck & Doarn, 2014). The report even provides the capabilities and
even the benefits of the project or the advantages provided by the project.
Discussion
Problem
A project namely, Tele Health is introduced for the improvement of the access of
quality health care rural public hospital or health service. When healthcare professionals are
separated by long distance, it is extremely difficult for them to communicate to deliver a high
quality health or related processes, like education (Saberi et al., 2013). This particular project
introduced as a new and innovative way of information and communications technologies for
overcoming that distance. Tele Health can be a real time, convenient, and cost effective
alternative to more traditional face-to-face way of providing healthcare, education and
professional advice (Gabrielian et al., 2013). It can help in removing most of the barriers that