Importance of Telehealth

Importance of Telehealth

Introduction

Telehealth means the information technology utilized for delivering treatments. It is the promotion of health through telecommunications technologies through the use of two-way internet, networks and voice and video teleconferencing. Telemedicine allows performing remote medical actions.

One of its applications is often more in Units of Primary Health Care, Hospitals and Polyclinics, seeking other medical institutions of reference for a second medical opinion, consultations and exchanges of information. Other applications of telemedicine are: discussion of clinical cases, diagnostic aid, assistance to chronically ill, elderly and high-risk pregnancies, as well as direct patient care in your home (Charness, Demiris, Krupinski, & Ebooks Corporation. 2011).

Background

The term 'Telehealth' and 'Nursing Telepractice' have the same meaning. There are two important examples 'telehome nursing' and 'home Telehealth nursing' have the same meaning to describe Telehealth nursing (Steventon, et.al, 2012). Major aim of these terms is to describe the use of technology in homecare settings to get service of nursing through use of remote.

Telehealth nursing is the provision of nursing by means of electronic. It is become a medium of delivery that is quite different from traditional nursing care settings. However, Telehealth has now become more important and key practice area to enforcing competencies of Telehealth nursing and listening credential agencies. It is job of administrative teams within the health care organizations who are responsible to identify competencies of Telehealth nursing and other related jobs.

According to (Steventon, et.al, 2012) there is a need to create guidelines and standards that support Telehealth nursing practice and also reduce the liability of risk for Telehealth nurses. In order to make sure that high quality and safe Telehealth nursing practice, security of personal health data and technical requirements should adhere to both local and national laws who aimed to store data transmission of personal health.

To ensure the privacy and confidentiality of patient data and confidentiality, the information system must have mechanisms restricted and limited to each user profile, in accordance with its role in the care process. The physician must personally come to the assistance of the data records in the information system. The delegation of the task to an administrative professional does not exempt the physician from liability. The password must be delegated and controlled by password medical professional who is subordinate.

All employees in administrative and technical areas that, somehow, have access to medical record data must sign a confidentiality and non-disclosure in accordance with ISO / IEC 17799 (Telehealth, 2011). The information system should be able to identify each user through some method of authentication. In the case of local use systems in which there is no transmission of information to another institution, it is mandatory the use of passwords.

Furthermore, the information system must have a record (log) of events, as stipulated in the ISO / IEC 17799. These records must include: the identification of system users; dates and times of entry (log-on) and exit (log-off) in the system; identity of the terminal and, when possible, your location, ...