1. What do you see as the greatest benefit that this framework could provide in terms of telehealth? Telehealth is a critical component of the healthcare system and can potentially improve the quality of healthcare services, particularly in remote and rural areas. It can potentially reduce office visits, increase patient’s compliance, help healthcare providers to better monitor patients and closely watch their progress remotely. A good example of telehealth is videoconferencing. Patients and local healthcare providers can interact with other healthcare providers and discuss their thoughts, concerns and issues remotely. There are many benefits, but four fundamental benefits of Telemedicine are: -Improved Access: The healthcare provider shortages are a major worldwide issue and problem especially …show more content…
Telemedicine can provide a reliable base for the management of chronic diseases, shared health professional staffing, reduced travel times, and fewer or shorter hospital stays. - Improved Quality: telemedicine based healthcare services have comparable quality with traditional in-person consultations. Even in some specialties such as mental health and ICU care, telemedicine quality of care surpasses the quality and satisfaction of the traditional healthcare system. - Patient Demand: Due to ease of availability and use, consumers demand for telemedicine services are high. Telemedicine has the greatest impacts on the patient, their family and their community. Travel time, stress and related hassles reduction are the main benefits to patients. Telemedicine can offer and provide exceptional access to providers that might not be available, otherwise, as well as medical services without the need to travel long distances. 2. In your current clinical setting, can you provide one example of how telehealth can be used to enhance or provide patient