Telehealthcare for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - PDF

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Tele-healthcare
The tele-healthcare is a wide array of technologies and practices that are used to provide
virtual service and care related to health, education and medical information to individuals (Hu,
2013). This service is a collection of ways through with educational service related to care and
health is provided to specific populations. in this process, the patient is at the originate and
whereas healthcare provider is at a distant location from where the facilities provide diagnosis,
consultation, education and care management to them using information or communication
technology (Frennert, Forsberg & Östlund, 2013). The means through which such information
are shared are synchronized and asynchronized modalities. The synchronized modality includes
audio-visualized telecommunication technology, where live one to one interaction between
patient and caregivers is possible. On the other hand, asynchronized process helps to transmit
pre-recorded digital image or video to the patient and real-time interaction did not occur. The
services for that tele-healthcare service is used are: counselling, chronic disease management,
dentistry, professional education service and home health (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
Tele-healthcare nursing
Tele-healthcare nursing is a part of nursing service, where nurses provide healthcare
interventions and educated patients from remote locations using telemedicine technologies
(McLean et al., 2012). These nursing practice is known as tele-nursing, telehealth and nursing
tele-practice. This nursing practice helps nurses to reach anywhere such as in prison, in patients
home, at doctors chamber and even accompany them in their trips as soon as there is a better
connectivity or communication medium is present. Further, this process is helpful in situations
where the healthcare facilities are unable to reach such as a place where natural disaster has

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affected hundreds of people. In this situation, nursing tele-healthcare can help few of the
volunteers the ways to provide those affected people with primary healthcare service, wound
treatment and primary first aid. Furthermore, this service helps patients to conduct their pre-
surgical and post-surgical care (Dahl & Boulos, 2013).
Positive and negative aspects of tele-healthcare services
Positive:
1. This process is convenient and accessible for a majority of the patients. As per the
Ploeg et al. (2016), more than 74% people admit that healthcare should be easy
and convenient. Using this service, patients are able to use on demand service,
removing the extra costs of expensive healthcare facilities.
2. This service helps to engage patient in the healthcare process.
3. Quick monitoring and analysis with electronic data storage helps in reducing costs
of expensive healthcare processes (Kvedar, Coye & Everett, 2014).
Negative:
1. Lack in training related to technology and used equipment of staffs such as
physicians, practice, and medical staff is the crucial part as without that it
becomes difficult for trained staffs to look for that much staff (Frennert, Forsberg
& Östlund, 2013).
2. Patients are unable to attain continuity in the service as every time they are being
connected to a new service provider.