What You Need to Know about Telemedicine

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Have you heard about telemedicine? Telemedicine is a service that makes it possible for you to reach out to health expert from the comfort of your home. This idea has been in existence for a very long time, but a lot of people are not aware of its impact. When telemedicine started, it was used with landline devices, in those days when the internet was not very common, doctors could interact with patients from landlines and monitor their state of health.

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telemedicine is defined as “healing from a distance”, it gives you the freedom to receive treatment without needing to schedule an appointment with your physician or go to the office for medical services. Definition by WHO.

Telemedicine can be classified into three categories:
There is an interactive telemedicine service, this makes it possible for patients to have an interactive session with their doctors. During cases like this, doctors usually have to visit the patient at home or fix the meeting to a place where they could discuss. With the high trend of internet facility, the meeting between doctors and patients are now fixed to phone conversation and video conference call.

Remote monitoring is another method that doctors use to monitor their patients, there are various devices that are been used to monitor things such as: high sugar level, temperature etc.

There is a condition of store and forward, where medical practitioners have to forward some information about their patients to another health practitioner who might have more facilities to conduct further test or who might be exposed to more internet facility.

Advantages that come with using telemedicine.

Telemedicine is very important in regions where there are no adequate medical practitioners to cater for everyone.

Telemedicine helps in meeting the needs of people who need urgent medical care but are far from the regions where they can get it.

Telemedicine provides a great level of convenience to those who seek medical help.

Making use of a telemedicine service, helps to prevent patients with simple medical cases from getting exposed to viral pandemics like covid-19 while trying to locate a hospital.

Telemedicine could be used to confirm if a certain medication could be used to treat an ailment instead of going on destructive self-medication procedure.

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Disadvantages that comes with using telemedicine.

The issue of cyber security remains a major challenge in anything that has to do with technological online instruments, while test results are being transferred, the system could be hacked and taken advantage of.
There are states that do not permit that drugs could be prescribed online and this serves as a barrier to effective communication between medical experts and their patients.

Another level of training is required to make use of medical equipment online which may take not only extra time but extra resources.

I will like to ask this question, will you use a telemedicine service for any reason or would you rather go to a hospital?



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