How Telemedicine Makes “Data Driven Healthcare” Important

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How Telemedicine Makes Data Driven Healthcare
Important, Effective a Real Advantage
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• MITs Technology Review November Issue contained
  an article entitled Data Driven Healthcare  Can
  Technology Fix Medicine?  In the comments
  section, some commenters began to make a case
  that they believe can begin to connect the dots
  between the patient, the doctors diagnosis and
  prescribed treatment.

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• Julia Walden commented The data is a good
  benchmark, but it all comes down to human
  interaction while Frank.Finkelstein.7 remarked,
  The electronic medical record is designed to
  track points useful in billing.  If done in
  real time, it distracts the clinician, who can no
  longer keep eye contact with the patient.  If
  done at the end of the day, its an imposition on
  the clinician and subject to memory lapses. Both
  points bring up how through the proper
  application of the Telemedicine  as a secure,
  interactive, private virtual space for
  professionals and patients to interact could
  solve both issues.

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How Telemedicine Can Help?

• In the future, I believe patients and the doctors
  will interact through telemedicine, much like
  they do with other forms of technology hardly
  cognizant of the technology involved, like those
  who use Skype, or FaceTime, or Facebook to keep
  up with friends.   As the interactions between
  the patient and the physician will be real and
  take place in real time, they should feel no
  different than the overwhelming reality
  experienced whilst using any of the other many
  technologies we use daily without thought. Just
  as the giant platforms we use such as Facebook,
  Google, or Twitter, track our every move, in real
  time, a telemedicine environment, when properly
  structured, can help track patient care and daily
  health. Of course, this demands security and
  privacy, and a process that ID-100228011ensures
  these are paramount. But the tools exist and can
  be engaged.

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Will it provide good benchmark data? yes,
almost assuredly it will provide far better data
than what can be provided in the current medical
structures we employ.  Will it improve human
interaction? Yes, for certain issues (such as
virtual dermatology symptoms, diagnosis and
treatment, or cardiac monitoring, pre-natal
visits, etc.) via private virtual spaces, the
entire compendium of care can be addressed with
analytical data, at the micro patient level, and
the physician interaction level, offering both
the advantage of real time data capture,
interaction and follow-up care.
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• Will it offer equivalent human interaction? 
  Well, it will eliminate the inconvenience of a
  Doctors office visit, offer quicker responses,
  remove the imposition on the clinicians by
  extending the care across those available.
  Furthermore, it will provide better access that
  doesnt demand a physical presence and specific
  time.  Much of todays technology already
  eliminates this need, whether it be the privacy
  and convenience that 67 of the banking public
  now enjoy with electronic banking, or a visit
  from a friend who is far away.
• In healthcare, time is typically of the essence. 
  It certainly is for the patient. Ever waited in
  line at an emergency room?  Timely interactions
  with medical professionals is high in demand, and
  a top priority for patients. This pressure to
  deliver is increasingly placed on clinicians and
  medical centres of treatment.  If this waiting
  time can be reduced, and availability extended
  via telemedicine, wouldnt we all benefit?

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• Yes it is true, a bone cant be set over the
  computer screen, and a heart attack cant be
  treated immediately on an iPhone, but that
  doesnt preclude the many pre-admission,
  pre-office visit, point of care situations that
  from being improved, or completely handled. In
  fact, using telemedicine means that clinicians,
  patients and health care service providers
  receive better data from point of care to the
  process of care, so they can expedite the healing
  process for even these more extreme injuries and
  situations.
• I dont think the issue is whether or not Data
  Driven Health Care can Fix Medicine.  I
  believe it is how we integrate telemedicine and
  mHealth into the medical system that will provide
  us better processes for health care, better
  management of the patient, and clinician and
  clinical interaction.  And from there, we will
  learn  how to better manage, capture, analyse and
  improve our check lists manifesto for better
  care, cost containment and broader health care
  access.

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  specialty medicine and telemedicine, please dont
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