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Consumer Informatics/Telehealth Case Study

Leonard Einstein

Shannon Hawkins

Health Informatics and Information System NR706

11/7/2021

Discuss how telehealth can assist in addressing equality of health care resource distribution. What barriers must be removed to achieve well-being, sufficiency, and health care access for all?

In addition to the capacity to remotely change the patient’s state of health at home, telehealth technology provides remote diagnosis and diagnostic testing of patients (Edmunds, Hass & Holve, 2019). ePrescription medications are likewise permitted, as is long-term therapy. Using telehealth, patients and their healthcare professionals may interact more effectively. When it comes to healthcare delivery and quality, telehealth offers doctors the chance to increase their practice’s profitability by managing a larger number of patients while simultaneously lowering the cost of practice and health care (Hanjani et al., 2020). Healthcare technology and telecommunications advancements have resulted in substantial advances and long-term plans for the delivery of healthcare (Hanjani et al., 2020). telehealth is hampered by a lack of awareness about insurance coverage, a lack of community health services, and an inability to share necessary knowledge (Higa et al., 2021). Increasing the level of patient understanding and ensuring that healthcare facilities have trustworthy patient-connection technologies can help to remove these roadblocks. Assuring patients have a desire for self-care is the greatest way to improve health settings and make appropriate medication and treatment methods more accessible.

In your discussion, consider concepts such as equity, respect, self-determinism, health literacy, cyclic disadvantage, and health care disparities among marginalized populations or groups.

Disparities in healthcare, such as prejudice, have an impact on the equality needed to achieve good health management. These inequalities include anything from high rates of illness, infection, and disability to high death rates to shorter life spans (Edmunds, Hass & Holve, 2019). That’s why knowing socioeconomic issues like work, lifestyle, money, and accessibility to healthcare is challenging for healthcare practitioners to achieve (Edmunds, Hass & Holve, 2019). Many African-Americans and Hispanics, who spend most of their income on social needs, have limited access to healthcare. Healthcare improvements and treatments are challenging when patients’ physical problems need them. As a result of being unfit for their environment, people with cyclic disadvantage acquire unhealthy behavioral and physical health problems. Patients who have a hard time getting cheap, high-quality treatment have a difficult time receiving it. When medical technology is used to alleviate healthcare inequities in underserved regions, clinicians may employ telecommunications technology and electronic data to reduce the burden of traveling to get specialist treatment. It enables healthcare experts to focus on underserved populations, hence enhancing communication, timeliness, monitoring, and healthcare access across the whole healthcare system (Hanjani et al., 2020).

Compare and contrast how each patient may benefit from telehealth services and the ethical considerations from the viewpoint of the nurse.

Because he lives so far away from the healthcare provider, Mr. Kasich stands to gain from telehealth. The telemonitoring gadget captures all bodily statuses; therefore, using telehealth to provide his physical health status to clinicians would be useful. Kasich has chronic ailments that can only be treated and whose severity is minimized, such as diabetes, heart failure, and lung cancer, making the practice of monitoring his vital signs ideal for him.

As a truck driver, Mr. Lane will benefit from telehealth since he spends the majority of his time driving. As a result, he has trouble getting to medical facilities when he needs them. Telehealth might provide a convenient way for patients to stay in touch with their doctors even while they’re out of town. In this approach, patients’ physical ailments may be better managed, and their health could be improved.

References

Edmunds, M., Hass, C., & Holve, E. (Eds.). (2019). Consumer Informatics and Digital Health: Solutions for Health and Health Care. Springer.

Hanjani, L. S., Caffery, L. J., Freeman, C. R., Peeters, G., & Peel, N. M. (2020). A scoping review of the use and impact of telehealth medication reviews. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 16(8), 1140-1153.

Higa, C., Krupinski, E. A., Birkmre-Peters, D., & Labasan, S. (2021). Challenges and opportunities to advancing telehealth: US Telehealth Resource Centers’ approach. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. https://doi.org/10.3233/shti210024