Healthcare Trends and New Technology: Telemedicine Report

This report explores the transformative impact of technology on the healthcare industry, particularly focusing on telemedicine and its growing influence. It highlights the increasing use of apps, the internet, and remote kiosks to facilitate patient access to physicians, especially in urgent situations. The report discusses how advancements in telemedicine, including tele-radiology, tele-consultation, and potential tele-surgeries, are changing dynamics for hospitals, doctors, and patients by enabling better diagnosis and prognosis. It emphasizes the positive outlook of healthcare professionals towards telemedicine, along with the use of video conferencing, mobile apps, and wearable medical devices. The report references key articles that support the significance of telemedicine in providing immediate remote access to medication and other health services, predicting a rise in telehealth services. The report concludes by emphasizing the need for healthcare IT to become a priority in technological innovation.

Healthcare Trends and New Technology
The healthcare system and the various medical companies today are using apps, internet and
remote kiosks to provide appointments of the physicians in the situations when patients need
them desperately. It is basically a remote healthcare access using health information technology
and electronic system.
How Telemedicine Is Transforming Health Care
The cutting edge advancements in the field of technology have made it possible for telemedicine
to be utilized in a wide range of areas such as trauma care, spinal surgery, joint replacements,
brain surgery or the treatment of the cancer. In this regard, Tele-radiology and Tele-consultation
are providing many standard operating methods for the far away facilities. The Tele-proctoring
and Tele-presence surgeries are not too far away in the future. These new possibilities are
changing the dynamics of the hospitals, researchers, doctors and patients. This massive
advancement in the field of technology is enabling better diagnosis and prognosis by the
application of telemedicine because it is revolutionizing the entire healthcare by providing the
customers the tools to take care of themselves (Liao, Emanuel, & Navathe, 2016).
Importance of Topic
The healthcare professionals are now very optimistic and positive about telemedicine and
therefore, actively pursuing telemedicine breakthroughs even if there are regulatory challenges.
In view of the recent advancements, at video-conferencing kiosks with physician-controlled
sensors such as a remote stethoscope, the healthcare professionals are providing health-clinics
with on-sight alternatives. Video conferencing with a doctor, surgeon, psychologist or any

consultant is also available through a mobile app or on the internet with the help of Doctor on
Demand (Bird, McAuley & McMahon, 2016). So, all the queries and problems of the patients
can be effectively addressed by them. So, the telemedicine has a lot to offer in terms of
significant growth opportunities for certain medical companies to get ready for the new
dynamics of patient expectations.
How it is related
The telemedicine as is discussed in the article, has a lot of benefits in terms of immediate remote
access to medication in adverse life threatening circumstances. For example, if somebody
develops an allergic reaction at some place then a drug dispensing solution can be administered
through video conferencing. As per a report given by National Centre for Policy Analysis,
around 7 million people would be utilizing Tele-health services by the end of 2018. As far as
Robotics is concerned, its precision and flexibility is efficiently allowing the doctors or surgeons
to perform complex surgeries. Today, there is a wide range of wearable medical devices that are
used personally and professionally for the purpose of measuring heart rates, calories intake,
sugar levels, ECG, blood pressure and many other vital parameters. Apart from these,
smartphones are being used as diagnostic tools with attachable scanners and sensors (Kaur,
Sharma & Kaur, 2016).
Response to the Article
I also agree with the fact that it is about time that telemedicine lives up its potential as these
advancements are just the beginning and the tidal wave of IT and electronic communication are
going to change the healthcare industry like never before. The way healthcare industry is

achieving advancements, there is growing demand to make healthcare IT to make favorite child
of Technological Innovation.
The following link is the source of the above news article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-telemedicine-is-transforming-health-care-1466993402

References
Bird, J., McAuley, T., & McMahon, C. (2016). Vital Sensory Kit for Use with Telemedicine in
Developing Countries.
Kaur, G., Sharma, D., & Kaur, V. (2016). Telemedicine in Transient Phase: Emergence of M-
Health Care Services. Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 9(15).
Liao, J., Emanuel, E., & Navathe, A. (2016). Six health care trends that will reshape the patient
provider dynamic. Healthcare, 4(3), 148-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hjdsi.2016.06.006