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HEALTHCHAPTER 12
By: Ky Price
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Telemedicine
• Telemedicine systems which are sometimes called telemedicine, they allow medical consultations to take place when the doctor and patient are in separate physical locations.
• Store and forward telemedicine systems are used when real-time communication is not essential such as diagnostic tests
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Various types • Real time technologies like video
conferencing is used when face to face communication is needed between Doctor and Patient, or Doctor to Doctor.
• Tele-surgery is operating on a remote patient is in the making, the Da Vinci surgical system is in the making for further advancement
• Remote patient monitoring is a system used with allows patients to return home yet still be closely monitored by medical staff
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Disadvantages
• The security of Tele-medicine is the biggest issue, sending sensitive data over NTWICS and TLS encryption or the use of VPN’s are used
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Electronic Medical Records (EMR)• EMR’s store patient
data in computerized data based
• Traditional systems store medical record in centralized database personal health records (PHR)
• These records might be stored in a cloud based system
Benefits-Can be accessed by many people and can be transferred and restored instantly
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Cont.• Data protection act and health insurance portability and accountability (HIPPA) address the privacy issue of data
• Opt in approach requires patients to give consent of their data being accessed
• E prescriptions or electronic prescriptions automatically generate and send prescriptions to pharmacies
• - systems more advanced in this aspect link to medical expert systems which can suggest alternative and cheaper drugs or alert complications to pharmacist.
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Medical Expert Systems
• Expert systems sometimes called clinical decision making since the early 1970s
• Virtual reality therapy systems have been developed to improve the treatment of PTSD and certain phobias
• Patient stimulators- feature computerized system's which mimic functions of the human body
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Online Medical Advice
• Diagnostics sites operated by government or individual clinics offer information on common illnesses and symptoms
• Support group sites are another form of online health advice
- Risks include the authenticity of the authors
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Medical Research
• Disease mapping- used to map outbreaks
• Health map- similar to google maps to show latest health news and alerts globally
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