In this century, organizations are doing all they can to be efficient and productive. Organizations are implementing current trends that fit their organization. Being in the health care industry, our organization is also looking to improve by implementing current trends in the industry.  As the manager I am working on implementing telemedicine. Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one source to another through electronic communication to improve a patient’s health status. Telemedicine includes such technologies such as telephones, facsimile machines, electronic mail systems, and remote patient monitoring devices, which are used to collect and transmit patient data for monitoring and interpretation. I am looking to tailor this to those with chronic diseases which require daily monitoring and intervention.

Telemedicine can be used to provide different services such as Primary care and specialist referral service, Remote patient monitoring, Consumer medical and health information and Medical education. Consider a patient with Diabetes. Such a patient needs constant monitoring and interventions which is expensive given the travels to the facilities and the time taken. For those who cannot afford private home care, it becomes a nightmare. However, with telemedicine, the monitoring and intervention can be done over the electronic communication. In addition, patients can be educated together at the comfort of their homes.  This will save the time and energy of the patient. In fact researchers estimate that the cost for taking care of patients with chronic illnesses can be reduced by 9% per year with the use of telemedicine effectively (American Hospital Association, 2016).

After much research, the resources I found useful include the Medicaid government website, the American Telemedicine association website and American hospital, association website. All these websites provide useful and considerable facts about the current trends in the health care industry. Information about telemedicine is explained comprehensively in these websites.

There are those resources that I reviewed and chose not to use. They include other websites such as health affairs blog and health catalyst website. These website provide information about current trends but much of it is personal opinions and not facts. One is left to deduce what is a fact and what is an opinion. In deciding what to use, I considered the credibility of the resources. Personal websites with opinions are not considered credible but government websites with reports and statistics are factual and thus credible.

Reference

American Hospital Association,. (2016). Research & Trends. Aha.org. Retrieved 7 July 2016, from http://www.aha.org/research/index.shtml

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