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Telemedicine Correct Answers _Uses computers and
telecommunications lines to deliver health care at a distance.
-May use store-and-forward technology to transmit still images or
interactive videoconferencing for real-time consultation
-Has been used in prisons for years, and the prison population is
growing.
Non Face-to-Face services Correct Answers -MD sends pictures,
samples, EKG recordings or videos to another MD
-Patient is not present
-Mostly Radiology, but other specialties as well
Home Telehealth Correct Answers Remote monitoring systems
Interactive Videoconferencing Correct Answers A telemedicine
consultation involves a doctor at one site with the patient at another site.
Telemedicine Continues to Grow Correct Answers -More than half of all
US Hospitals currently have a telemedicine program
-Top three states with high adoption rates of telemedicine are Alaska,
Arkansas and South Dakota
-Expectations are that more than 7 Million patients will use telemedicine
services by 2018
, 74% of patients Correct Answers Reported they are comfortable
communicating with their MDs instead of seeing them
VA Correct Answers Used telemedicine for post-cardiac arrest patients.
Readmissions decreased by 51% for heart failure and 44% for other
illnesses
In 2010, approximately 31,000 people used it
Under-served populations in rural areas Correct Answers 1 in 10 MDs
practice in rural areas in the US
20% of Americans live in rural areas without easy access to primary care
or specialists.
Bluetooth Technology Correct Answers Can connect various devices
Subspecialties Correct Answers Teleradiology
Telepathology
Teledermatology
Teleophthalmology
Telecardiology
Teleneurology
Telehome care
Teleneurology Correct Answers -Including telestroke and the treatment
of epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease.