Essay - Telemedicine: Will Telemedicine Improve the Quality of Healthcare and Its...

Telemedicine: Will telemedicine improve the quality of healthcare and its delivery for remotely located advanced ***** para-professionals?

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The basic purpose of this study is to discuss whether telemedicine will ***** the quality of health care and it's delivery for remotely located advanced health care para-pr*****essionals.

The scope of ***** study is over seeing as it covers the implication of implementation ***** telemedicine as a professional genre. It would also show how ***** installation of telemedicine means to other researchers, who want ***** take th***** field further and analyze it other context such as financial system of medical systems, telemedicine implica*****on on Medicare etc.

Methodology

***** researcher plans to adopt a c*****e study/ historical methodology of research by first collecting a literature review ***** then finally using it as a b*****se ***** the analysis ***** the hypo*****sis questi*****s. The ***** will also plan to use both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources will consist of government documentation ***** first hand interviews documented in reports. Secondary resources will include articles, web sites etc.

Resources

***** following is a proposed ***** for the study.

Dakins, D.R., "Wild-Eyed Revenue Projections Create Moving Target for Home Healthcare Market," Telemedicine and Telehealth Networks, 1995, 2:3:3.

Consensus Statement, First Mayo Telemedicine Symposium, 1993

Grigs***** J, Bar*****n PL, et al. Analysis of expansion of access to care through use of ***** and mobile health services. 3: Telemedicine policy: quality assurance, utilization review, and coverage. Denver: Center for Health Policy Research; 1994:8.

Fishman, Dorothy J., Telemedicine: bringing the specialist to the patient.. Vol. 28, Nursing Management, 07-01-1997, pp 30(3).

H.L. Sm*****, and A. Baum, "Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) ***** Reimbursement in *****." Journal of Medical Systems 19, no. 2 (1995): 139-42.

IOM, Telemedic*****e: A Guide to Assessing Telecommunications in Health *****, M.J. Field, ea., (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1996),p.1.

Zundel, K. M., "Telemedicine: History, Applications, and Impact on Librarianship," Bull*****in of the ***** Library Associati*****, 1996, 84:1:71-79.

***** of Problem/Question to be Researched

***** to high demand of ***** care need especially for those who do no have ***** to medical centres. These are usually concentrated in ***** rural areas or suburbs. The researcher aims to find answers ***** the following research studies:

***** telemedicine improve the ***** of health care?

Will it ***** the delivery of health care to remote *****?

Is telemedicine cost effective?

How can it ***** made cost-effective?

Survey of the Literature

Telemedicine is perhaps one of the fastest growing revolutionary technologies after computer-based patient records. According ***** a recent study, telemedicine, in all likelihood worth billions of precious ***** care *****llars along with replacing 5 % of hospital stays, ***** % ***** nursing home care and another 20 % of home health v*****its. (Dakins 1995)

The primary advantage that can be acquired through the field of ***** is that it allows patients and doctors to interact at a rapid speed mainly by way of computers ***** p*****ient video cameras. To put it simply, physical distance *****tween a doctor ********** a patient