Healthcare - Made Easy



Healthcare - Made Easy

Introduction

The globalization of the world is the cause of mobility of various facilities; one of those facilities includes the healthcare delivery systems. Most of the work which a doctor does at the clinic can now easily be done with the help of either mobile or handheld device using the remote connection. Moreover, in this lieu, the incorporation of various factors including the location, communication means and collaboration for the various stages of diagnosis and prevention are the core competencies of the newly evolved technology. Apart from that, the services of moving the patients from one place to another; more specifically, from common locations; like, laboratories, clinics, offices, and wards also fell within the very domain of healthcare services delivery (Prgomet, M. et al, 2009).

Discussion

Vital Sign Monitoring - Comparison and Contrast

The ample development of the mobile and wireless network technologies has given rise to the advances in the field of e-health along with various telemedicine applications. Moreover, the incorporation of smart phones and PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) have become the core competency of the today fierce and competitive market; and thereby, provides us with a wide range of platforms for dealing with the e-health situations.

It has also made the task of monitoring various vital signs including the heart rate, and other core parameter which are considered part and parcel of monitoring in the real-time by the doctors. Most of the times wireless networks are used for the roles of hospital administrative purposes. Moreover, it also facilitates the doctors to monitor a number of services for the careful and real-time monitoring of the patient's vital signs right from their desks without any hasty running from place to place. In the real world scenario, the task is quite crucial to keep in mind every minute detail about the patients but thanks to the technological developments it is now a reality.

Various medical instruments, which are used for monitoring the vital human signs, are linked via LAN, and this makes it easily assessable using remote connection. It also facilitates the feature of online recording of various parameters in case of any mishap. Moreover, it can also be readily assessed by doctors or even the HODs for complete detailed assessment of patient's medical history (Ros, M. et al, 2008). On the other hand, the conventional doctor practices does not offer such amount of flexibility which is readily enjoyed by most of the hospital having remote access and mobile computing. However, by the incorporation of 3G technology, it was possible to unleash the medical facilities beyond typical ECG machines and up to cardio-graphic monitoring.

Another core difference is related to the sensors which are under for monitoring. In the mobile monitored system, the patient is patched with electrode patches, which usually weightless, or sometimes invisible thin films are possessing the capability of sending out the data to the corresponding recipients. On the other hand, the monitoring is based on the sensors feeding the signals to the monitoring machine ...