Telehealth Project: Vision Document for Improving Healthcare in Rural Areas

Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS PG
System Analysis PG
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Problem............................................................................................................................................2
Capabilities......................................................................................................................................3
Benefits............................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
Telehealth project has been introduced for improving the access to the healthcare in
public hospitals of the rural areas (Rutledge et al., 2014). The main aim of this project is to
improve the delivery of healthcare, health services and improve the patient outcomes across the
state. Current funding is being planned to set up urgent healthcare centres in the rural regions and
to set up emergency departments at the nearest hospitals via video conferencing.
This report develops a vision document for the Telehealth project. It discusses about the
problems for which this project is being planned. This report also describes the capabilities as
well as benefits of the Telehealth project.
Problem
Healthcare professionals face difficulty in providing quality healthcare services to the
patients due to long distance issues. They face difficulty in communicating for delivering health
or other related processes such as professional advice and education. There are several issues in
case of face-to-face methods of providing education, professional advice and healthcare services.
Most of the physicians and healthcare professionals practice in the urban regions. There is lack
of healthcare facilities in the rural regions (Paliadelis et al., 2012). Due to long distance,
healthcare professionals face difficulty in delivering timely as well as appropriate healthcare
services to the patients in the rural regions. They also face difficulty in providing educational
support. Healthcare professionals are unable to spend sufficient time with the patients due to
several barriers like time, distance and cost. Rural patients do not get the facility of emergency
healthcare services in a timely manner (Weinhold & Gurtner, 2014). Response time by the