Telemedicine for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Review

Charles Sturt University
ITC571: Emerging Technologies and
Innovation
Project Type: Review
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease with
the help of telemedicine
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Table of content
1. Introduction to Telemedicine
1.1. Phenomenology
1.2. Methods
1.3. Applications available
2. Background of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
3. Approach
3.1. Architecture
3.2. Cooperation
3.3. Intervention
3.4. Data acquisition
3.5. Data analysis
4. Results
4.1. Body structure
4.2. Living with Chronic Operative Pulmonary Disease
4.2.1. Physical limitations
4.2.2. Mental limitations
4.3. Getting care through Telemedicine
4.3.1. Accessibility
4.3.2. Support
4.3.3. Analytical insights
5. Discussion
5.1. Unlocking the limitations of disease through telemedicine
6. Conclusion
7. Abbreviation
8. Table of content
9. References
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1. Introduction to Telemedicine
Telecommunication and medicine are brought together to cater for health services remotely
known as telemedicine. It was first introduced in the early 1970s. Through telemedicine patients
can get consistent access to the preferred services, decreases the cost and increase the quality of
productivity and care and also disregard the distance barriers. Patients use telemedicine when
needed urgent access to the medical services and cannot travel to the specialist. It also provides
immense opportunities to the medical students from the expertise specialists. Telemedicine is
accessible and evolving constantly as it comes with new advancements in technology, and adapts
the rapids changes in health needs of the societies (Edoh, Pawar, & Kora, 2018). Telemedicine is
completely distinguished from telehealth, telehealth is restricted to the physicians only and
telemedicine services are open to health professionals from different fields including
pharmacists, nursing, and others. Telemedicine applications provoke types of transmissions like
text, audio, video, and image with varying Quality of Services requirements. In order to deliver
high quality of services, QoS requirements are accomplished by network providers. As per the
QoS, telemedicine services are required to have reliability, availability and low delay (Edoh et
al., 2018). The prevalence of chronic neurological disorder increases with the old age people,
access to the neurologist care is likely to worsen in various regions. The telemedicine is defined
as the use of real-time and also the video conferencing for the delivery of medical care. It can
also be used for improving the access to neurologist care for patients who are suffering a range
of chronic disorders as cancer, dementia, and others. Many of the previous studies show the
advantage of telemedicine in the delivery of healthcare facility for the customer.
Telemedicine can be categorized in two terms: Store and forward, and real-time
interactive.(Grogan et al., 2017)Gathering medical data and transmitting it to a practitioner or a
medical specialist for assessment is defined as store and forward. In this category of
telemedicine, the patient’s assessments are recorded in actual time and practitioner reviews at the
later time, based on this patients is recommended further care. This method of telemedicine
would be acceptable for providers and patient and gives an alternate path that increases the
number of patients available to assess by telemedicine. (Pulley et al., 2018) This method has
been rated high because of its mobility feature, severe mobility patients can get treated by
staying back home. In spite of being so many benefits, store and forward has some difficulty in
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some areas where telemedicine has included with the video file. Size of the video file might
sometimes big enough that there's no adequate capacity of storage is not available to store.
(Pulley et al., 2018) The second category is real-time interactive telemedicine where there’s an
interaction between doctors and patients parted with distance. (Sasikala, Indhira, &
Chandrasekaran, 2018)
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