TELEMEDICINE QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED
AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
What is consumer health informatics? Correct Answers - Aims to bridge
gap between patients and health resources
- Analyses consumers need for info; studies and implements methods of
making info accessible to consumers; models and integrates consumers
preferences into medical info systems
- Examples: technologies; apps that facilitate tracking + understanding
clinical parameters of disease
What are the categories of telehealth applications and explain them?
Correct Answers - Real-time (synchronous); continuous, Realtime flow
of info between point of care and provider. Technical considerations:
bandwidth
- Store and forward (asynchronous); info capture at (and transmission
from) the point of care is separated from the care provider. Technical
considerations: acquisition of info at point of care, local information
storage, transmission of information, storage and viewing of information
by remote provider
- Education and knowledge transfer; healthcare education and
knowledge transfer (distance learning). Web resources for: descriptions
of symptoms and diagnosis, info about diseases and treatment, support
for chronic conditions, drugs and other treatments
What are the basic drivers for telemedicine? Correct Answers - In
developed countries: access to healthcare provision in remote locations
or in challenging/ unusual situations (at sea, battlefield), low the cost and
increase effectiveness of expert advice, allow patients to access services
at home
,- Developing countries: there may be no local healthcare service, simple
knowledge transfer + advice from healthcare professionals can have big
impact
What are the benefits of/ for telemedince? Correct Answers - Patients:
bringing the distance to and uneven distribution of expertise, increase
contact between hospital, community and primary care-based staff so
greater continuity of care, improved discharge planning + follow up care
of patients so reduced readmission rates, increased contact between
hospital patients + family
- Home based medicine: improves patient compliance, increases patient
access to care, helps with patient satisfaction, early intervention, reduces
hospital visits, enhances clinicians access to patient
- Providers: more streamlined messaging + billing practices, support for
isolated staff, improved access to supervision for staff and working
relationships between staff at remote sites, greater integration of remote
health services
What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? Correct Answers - Lack of
face-to-face contact: cannot replace personal relationship with human
carers, quality, safety, and standards of care
- Lack of equity of access to computers and internet: cost, training of
users, telecommunications infrastructure
- Reimbursement issues
- Licensure, liability, and legal jurisdiction: across different
areas/countries
- Privacy and confidentiality concerns
- Complex evaluation/ validation issues
, - Technology/technical standards issues
What are the legal barriers of telemedicine? Correct Answers - Licence
considerations: how clinical responsibility is divided between
practitioner at remote consulting site and advisor at specialist centre
- Reimbursement mechanisms: contracts agreement to make sure
telemedicine services are paid for
- Telehealth equipment: must conform to medical device legislation
- Privacy and confidentiality regulations must be met
- Relationship between telehealth programme + telecommunications
carrier: break in service, its speed of restitution and associated
compensation
What is the need for standards in tele-medicine and give some
examples? Correct Answers - Exchange info freely, make systems
operable, extend useful life of systems, lower development, and
maintenance costs, protect against 'lock in' to individual vendors
- Can be categorised by technological requirements: communications,
internet (web, email, FTP), info representation, info transfer, info
storage and retrieval, device integration
- Examples: Health level 7 (HL7), HL7 clinical document architecture
(CDA); exchange model for clinical documents), Digital Imaging and
communications in Medicine (DICOM)
What are the drivers for home telehealth? Correct Answers - Population
and health: overweight, increase in chronic diseases
- The ageing population
AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS
What is consumer health informatics? Correct Answers - Aims to bridge
gap between patients and health resources
- Analyses consumers need for info; studies and implements methods of
making info accessible to consumers; models and integrates consumers
preferences into medical info systems
- Examples: technologies; apps that facilitate tracking + understanding
clinical parameters of disease
What are the categories of telehealth applications and explain them?
Correct Answers - Real-time (synchronous); continuous, Realtime flow
of info between point of care and provider. Technical considerations:
bandwidth
- Store and forward (asynchronous); info capture at (and transmission
from) the point of care is separated from the care provider. Technical
considerations: acquisition of info at point of care, local information
storage, transmission of information, storage and viewing of information
by remote provider
- Education and knowledge transfer; healthcare education and
knowledge transfer (distance learning). Web resources for: descriptions
of symptoms and diagnosis, info about diseases and treatment, support
for chronic conditions, drugs and other treatments
What are the basic drivers for telemedicine? Correct Answers - In
developed countries: access to healthcare provision in remote locations
or in challenging/ unusual situations (at sea, battlefield), low the cost and
increase effectiveness of expert advice, allow patients to access services
at home
,- Developing countries: there may be no local healthcare service, simple
knowledge transfer + advice from healthcare professionals can have big
impact
What are the benefits of/ for telemedince? Correct Answers - Patients:
bringing the distance to and uneven distribution of expertise, increase
contact between hospital, community and primary care-based staff so
greater continuity of care, improved discharge planning + follow up care
of patients so reduced readmission rates, increased contact between
hospital patients + family
- Home based medicine: improves patient compliance, increases patient
access to care, helps with patient satisfaction, early intervention, reduces
hospital visits, enhances clinicians access to patient
- Providers: more streamlined messaging + billing practices, support for
isolated staff, improved access to supervision for staff and working
relationships between staff at remote sites, greater integration of remote
health services
What are the drawbacks of telemedicine? Correct Answers - Lack of
face-to-face contact: cannot replace personal relationship with human
carers, quality, safety, and standards of care
- Lack of equity of access to computers and internet: cost, training of
users, telecommunications infrastructure
- Reimbursement issues
- Licensure, liability, and legal jurisdiction: across different
areas/countries
- Privacy and confidentiality concerns
- Complex evaluation/ validation issues
, - Technology/technical standards issues
What are the legal barriers of telemedicine? Correct Answers - Licence
considerations: how clinical responsibility is divided between
practitioner at remote consulting site and advisor at specialist centre
- Reimbursement mechanisms: contracts agreement to make sure
telemedicine services are paid for
- Telehealth equipment: must conform to medical device legislation
- Privacy and confidentiality regulations must be met
- Relationship between telehealth programme + telecommunications
carrier: break in service, its speed of restitution and associated
compensation
What is the need for standards in tele-medicine and give some
examples? Correct Answers - Exchange info freely, make systems
operable, extend useful life of systems, lower development, and
maintenance costs, protect against 'lock in' to individual vendors
- Can be categorised by technological requirements: communications,
internet (web, email, FTP), info representation, info transfer, info
storage and retrieval, device integration
- Examples: Health level 7 (HL7), HL7 clinical document architecture
(CDA); exchange model for clinical documents), Digital Imaging and
communications in Medicine (DICOM)
What are the drivers for home telehealth? Correct Answers - Population
and health: overweight, increase in chronic diseases
- The ageing population
