Telemedicine, Health Care's future in Nepal

 The word telemedicine comes from the combination of "Tele," in Greek, meaning "distance" and "mederi" in Latin, meaning "to heal" Distance is a limit to receiving timely, good-quality health care for individuals living in remote areas. By bridging this distance between the patient and the healthcare provider, telemedicine aims to solve this limitation. Telemedicine is described by the World Health Organization as "The delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of healthcare providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities" For example, to automatically upload vital signs and send them to a remote monitoring center, a patient or health care provider or caregiver can use a wireless phone. Telemedicine was one of the original innovations that increased the spread of healthcare services, where access to healthcare facilities was now available in places that were initially deemed inaccessible.

Telemedicine Benefits

Telemedicine increases the accessibility of patients living in rural areas to health care facilities and encourages doctors to reach out to patients and extend their services outside their own clinic. For both the patient and the health care provider, telemedicine reduces travel time. It also reduces the number of hospital stays, allowing for joint hiring of health practitioners, which translates into lower costs of health care. In addition to the decrease in travel time, it also decreases travel-related stress. As the patient, primary care physician, specialist and family members may be actively involved during a consultation, it promotes quality of patient care.

Telemedicine's obstacles

Physicians may be unaware of the advantages or usefulness of telemedicine and may be resistant to the use of such innovations as e-medicine. Another problem is building trust in patients about the outcome of these emerging technologies. In certain nations, language can be an obstacle. For instance, with only 2 percent being well-versed in English, only 65.38 percent of India's population is literate.

From a hospital viewpoint, telemedicine implementation requires high-capital investments related to infrastructure and connectivity, which may become financially unworkable. Various forms of software support telemedicine, and hardware is still immature and needs to develop.

Completion

Telemedicine is the solution to the dilemma of addressing the issue of healthcare services being unavailable. It may serve several purposes along with basic or advanced healthcare facilities with effective implementation. Recent developments in the field of information technology have increased the efficiency of telemedicine services and greatly reduced the associated costs. However, in relation to telemedicine, questions about the protection of patient data or being totally dependent on such services are being raised. However, the judicious application of this healthcare technology will save a lot more lives than before and dramatically reduce the cost of healthcare.

If you are seeking for the best telemedicine, Cura Health helps you to get reputed and experienced doctors for medicine consultant and to take appointment with doctors. Here is the website as well as app to download.





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