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The purpose of this assignment is to continue drafting your academic argumentative research paper. Description: In this assignment, you will write three to four body paragraphs. The following requirements must be included in the assignment: Body Paragraphs: You will construct three to four paragraphs comprised of five to seven sentences each. Each paragraph should be between 150-200 words. At a minimum, this portion of the paper should be around 450-600 words (for three to four paragraphs); a body section of this length will meet the minimum requirements of the assignment. The following components must be included in each body paragraph (in the following order). Sentence 1: Point/reason sentence: This topic sentence will contain one of your reasons. Sentence 2: Explanation: In this sentence, you provide information that further develops or explains Sentence 1. Sentence 3: Illustration: This sentence introduces evidence that supports the reason that is presented in Sentence 1. Sentence 4: Explanation of the illustration: Because the evidence does not necessarily stand on its own, you need to provide explanation so that the reader will understand how you interpreted the evidence to come to your reason. Sentences 5-6: Second illustration and explanation (optional): You may choose to include a second piece of evidence that is then followed by an explanation. Last Sentence: Transition: In this sentence, you will signal to the reader that you will be moving on to another point in the next paragraph. You do this to ease the movement from one point to another. Be sure to include the introduction and literature review you have already created and revised. Use APA conventions to cite and reference all sources used to support your argument.

Telemedicine: Draft Body Paragraphs

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Telemedicine: Draft Body Paragraphs

Healthcare professionals and policymakers should invest in telemedicine to increase the level of accessibility to health services. Telemedicine provides answers to the long-standing inequality in the access to health in the United States. Striking a balance between access to health and sustenance of health institutions’ operational efficiency is one of the biggest challenges that affect strategic planners for rural health delivery systems. For example, telemedicine can be embraced as a highly versatile and low-cost strategy to deliver rural health care services (Ishfaq, 2015). In particular, the remote black belt regions of the United States can utilize telemedicine since it is one of the areas that are affected the most when it comes to inequality in the access to health services. In order to reap immense benefits from this technology, factors such as the location of the telemedicine facility, range of coverage of healthcare services, as well as patients’ demographics. Therefore, telemedicine can improve access to care among marginalized groups.

The benefits of telemedicine go beyond improved access to health to include supporting of effective blood pressure control services. Telemedicine can be merged with case management to incorporate enhancements of blood pressure control among patients who suffer from hypertension (Lu, Chen & Hsu, 2017). For instance, home telemedicine care for elderly patients with hypertension is attainable for improving the control of blood pressure among patients with serious hypertension conditions. This strategy is cost-effective for patients who reside in remote areas away from advanced health institutions and facilities. Patients who are legible for these services should include the elderly individuals from remote centers or persons with disabili8ty who cannot commute to urban center on a regular basis for checkups and control. Patients aged 40 years and above are also ideal candidates for telemedicine as a tool to provide both pre-hypertension and hypertension services. This is especially true for patients who live alone in order to provide blood control monitoring.

Healthcare institutions can utilize telemedicine as a competitive tool over their rivals within the same industry. Telemedicine not only improves health care delivery services, but it is also a strategic and competitive instrument for organizational productivity and performance. The main competitive area is its use in improving patients’ health. In the past, healthcare institutions competed on the need to come up with efficacious ways to treat chronically ill patients (Rajan, Seidmann & Dorsey, 2013). For instance, patients who suffer from neurological diseases can be the leading beneficiaries of telemedicine. Apart for health care services, telemedicine is important to firms at the organizational levels since it helps to expand market share to the specialty institutions that deploy these tools and on competing hospitals in the United States and other parts of the world. Telemedicine shifts the competitive equilibrium between specialty healthcare organizations and community hospitals. Therefore, all types of hospitals are expected to reap immense benefits from creating complementary care to chronic patients as opposed to continuing with the competition.

While the benefits of telemedicine have been extensively discussed, current technologies that are used to support this service may deter the realization of anticipated benefits. Hardware and software technologies that are utilized to support telemedicine are sometimes user-unfriendly. For instance, current video conferencing devices and software that are commonly utilized to support telehealth services have come under sharp criticism for their inefficiencies (Jang-Jaccard, Nepal, Celler & Yan, 2016). They are often expensive to purchase and maintain. In addition, these systems utilize propriety technologies that are often incompatible to each other. Finally, they need fairly skilled information technology personnel to operate and maintain. Since such challenges deter the realization of benefits to both health care professionals and their patients, there is an urgent need to develop less costly, compatible, and easy-to-utilize video conferencing systems. One recommended technology would be the web real-time communication system (WebRTC), which promises to provide solutions by allowing web browsers that have real-time communication capabilities through the use of JavaScript APIs.

References

Ishfaq, R., & Raja, U. (2015). Bridging the healthcare access divide: a strategic planning

model for rural telemedicine network. Decision Sciences, 46(4), 755-790.

Jang-Jaccard, J., Nepal, S., Celler, B., & Yan, B. (2016). WebRTC-based video

conferencing service for telehealth. Computing, 98(1-2), 169-193.

Lu, J. F., Chen, C. M., & Hsu, C. Y. (2017). Effect of home telehealth care on blood

pressure control: A public healthcare centre model. Journal of Telemedicine and

Telecare, 1357633X17734258.

Rajan, B., Seidmann, A., & Dorsey, E. R. (2013). The competitive business impact of using

telemedicine for the treatment of patients with chronic conditions. Journal of

Management Information Systems, 30(2), 127-158.

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