The Revolutionary Impact of Telemedicine on Healthcare delivery

Today a new model of healthcare delivery is emerging, and telemedicine is one of the most dynamic trending models. As the market for healthcare has developed, telemedicine has risen as a global solution to bring convenient and effective access to medical services right to the patient’s home. It is time to look at how telemedicine is transforming the approach to disease management and the possibility of enhancing the results.

1. Improved Access to Care.

To start with, telemedicine helps overcome the geographical restrictions, which means that those residents of rural or even underserved areas get easier accesses to various necessary healthcare services. This increase in use of video consultations means that patients can discuss with specialists that are not locally available thus saving on time and fare. Thus, increasing access provides an opportunity to more people with the necessary stimula for promotion of health.

2. Convenient and Time-Saving

   What has happened to the time that we used to spend waiting at the clinics?. Telemedicine is an appointment based medium in which the patient takes his/her own time to make an appointment to attend a doctor's consultation without putting it in terms of losing a working day or having to travel long distances. Unlike the traditional health care systems, this kind of a system is quite flexible, which not only makes patients more satisfied, but also insist that they seek care before their illness deteriorates.

3. Cost-Effectiveness

  Because telemedicine entails fewer face-to-face appointments, everyone saves money — both parties involved in the medical process. Remote consultation reduces associated expenses in car fare as well as time wasted at the doctor’s office. The use of telemedicine by healthcare providers is also cheaper since it does not involve establishment of physical clinics.

4. Management of Chronic Conditions

     Specifically, the management of chronic conditions leads to the highest levels of cost among PDs with the highest authorized amounts. That means telemedicine has significant functions for chronic diseases, that are diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases, etc. Telehealth appointments facilitate the assessment of a patient’s conditions, modification of treatment plans, and encouragement or motivational boost. Continuous care model for such patients also eliminates some complications, hospitalizations, and general improvement of quality of life for patients with chronic diseases.

5. Improved satisfaction and maintenance of the patients

Telemedicine has features of remote monitoring of heart rate, other indicators, and general well-being, as well as prescribed medication compliance. It helps healthcare providers to be able to oversee their patients in live, meaning that they can be able to diagnose them in a better way. Further, telemedicine helps patients become engaged in managing their own health because they are free to consult their providers and receive advice concerning their condition at any time.

Conclusion

Telemedicine is a growing concept that will soon change the face of health care delivery by increasing access, efficiency and affordability. Telemedicine will become more integrated into the larger healthcare model as technology advances providing a system of care that has more continuity for the patient.