Telemedicine IT Components

Telemedicine projects have been successfully undertaken for over  fifty years, from the most basic use of a telephone to transmit medical  data to complex applications within the extreme environments of Earth.

Today, telemedicine enables physicians to provide opinions  concerning a patient's medical condition within a physically separated  environment.

To prepare for this discussion, read the following in your course text Health Information: Management of Strategic Resource:

https://www.wolterskluwercdi.com/

http://legacy.americantelemed.org/home

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05

/09/AR2008050901866.html?noredirect=on

Consider the technical challenges and cost-saving benefits associated with telemedicine. Then, answer the following questions:

• What are some of the technical challenges of a telemedicine project?
• How might telemedicine-based services impact the overall  cost of health care delivery? What cost savings can be realized with  telemedicine in industries, both inside and outside of health care?
• How does the choice of telecommunications conduit, such  as broadband, Wi-Fi Satellite, etc. affect what can be done through  telemedicine? How have advances in computer- and network-related  hardware impacted the spread of telemedicine projects worldwide?
• What might be a future application of telemedicine? 
• What are some risks associated with telemedicine? How can those be mitigated?