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"Future of continuous health services"

 

Telemedicine is not an evolutionary concept but a  revolutionary concept in 
itself. It represents a very innovative approach in  providing continuous quality 
healthcare services whenever and wherever needed. 
           
Taken in its broadest sense, telemedicine refers to all 
 the technology involved in medical applications when 
 patient- and care related  information flows between 
 personnel – whether surgeons, physicians, nurses, or  
 administrative staff – across local hospital or wider 
 networks. In terms of  what it wants to achieve, 
 telemedicine is about improving the performance of  
 health care to give better care, and ensuring that care is 
 made available and  given precisely where it is needed.

 

 

Benefits of Telemedicine 
            "Improve Access to Medical Services and Improve Quality of Care"

• Access to healthcare

Access to quality, state of the art health care in underserved areas, such as rural 
communities, is one of the most important promised benefits of  telemedicine. 
Rural residents are not second-class citizens; they deserve  access to health care 
services that those in metropolitan areas enjoy. 

• Saves time, travel, and other expenses

Telemedicine entails moving from a service delivery system in which  patients (and 
often parent or guardian) physically travel from a rural area  where they reside to 
an urban area to consult with a medical specialist, to a  system in which the 
specialist consults with the patient and rural primary care  provider using 
telecommunications facilities. An obvious opportunity is the potential  for 
transportation cost savings, such as the potential for saving a portion of  the millions 
spent annually on patient automobile travel expenses, emergency  air evacuations or 
other forms of transporting patients across the large  expanses of rural America.

• Health provider integration

Improved collaboration between providers (e.g., shared access to  electronic medical 
records and provider to provider consultations) provides  patients with enhanced 
confidence that all that can be done is being done.

• Continuing Medical Education / Lifelong learning

Telemedicine can enhance educational  opportunities for health care providers, patients, 
and families, improving  clinical outcomes and reducing hospitalizations. The opportunity 
to participate  in continuing education on the latest in medical advances without having 
to  travel long distances saves providers time, dollars and minimizes air  pollution.                 

 

"Telemedicine breaks  time and distance through providing
    
     healthcare Services 24 hours a day, 7  days a week"

• Complete Medical Sheets
  Digimedica'  Telemedicine solution based on providing doctors with complete electronic medical  sheets, this 
  enables doctors in the local area to easily enter examination  results at the point of care and then generate a 
  complete record ready to be  sent to the remote doctor electronically through mail or fax. 

• Connectivity with Medical Equipments
  Our complete  solution is capable to extract medical information directly from connected  medical equipments. 
  Lab results and X-Rays will be ready to be sent instantly  to the remote doctor.

• Video Conferencing over the internet
  Reliable video  conferencing connections could be easily established through Digimedica' Telemedicine  solution, 
  this enables doctors in the remote area to instantly examine patients  who are in the local consultancy center

• Mailing Options – based on Outlook 2003 / 2007 conferencingThe solution is easy to be used and fully integrated with Outlook 2003/2007 to exchange mails between doctors in the local and remote medical centers.

 

Hospitals Digitization Benefit

Solution Component

We provide the following

Standard We Support
      

What Does Our Solution Introduce?

It was a crucial target for us to follow the American Telemedicine Association in defining our services provided in the Telemedicine solution.
Our e-health care solution serves Telemedicine and Tele-health simultaneously, to improve the health care services provided for originating sites, hence we provide the following:

In Telemedicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Specialist referral services

typically involves of a specialist assisting a general practitioner in rendering a diagnosis. This may involve a patient "seeing" a specialist over a live, remote consult or the transmission of diagnostic images and/or video along with patient data to a specialist for viewing later.

2.Patient consultations

such as using audio, video and medical data between a patient and a primary care or specialty physician for use in rendering a diagnosis and treatment plan. This might originate from a remote clinic to a physician's office using a direct transmission link or may include communicating to a physician over the Web.

Technical Features

• Comprehensive electronic medical record which includes patient's clinical information along with personal and family history. This makes patients EMR available for doctors anytime anywhere they are breaking the time and distance barriers.
• Incorporates patient's medical data in form of image, video, audio and report.
• The data can be acquired by digital camera or web camera, high resolution scanner, CD-ROM or by interfacing with medical equipments.
• Patient's file including medical data along with demographical information is transferred through various communication media.
• The expert doctors can give opinion in text, hand written and prescription comment as well as in informal way during video conferencing.
• Video Conferencing System, during video conferencing data can be sent to either centre. Interactive whiteboard, chat and live medical image conferencing can also be done.

  

  • Utilizing Various Contact ways to perform diagnostic activities such as exchanging mails or contacting online in addition to SMSs for notifications
  
  

3.Remote patient monitoring

our solution utilize the use of devices to remotely collect and send data to a monitoring station for interpretation. To support after discharge patient follow up via following up vital signs and major symptoms that may appear on the patient.

Technical Features

• Utilizing smart phones and hand held devices to support remote patient care via small applications that connect to the main system via web. Also web based applications are available for this purpose.
• Sending notification for the origination site director via mails or SMSs.

In TeleHealth

1. Medical education

provides continuing medical education credits for health professionals and special medical education seminars for targeted groups in remote locations.

Technical Features

• Providing education portal mainly targeting clinical directors, nurses and doctors to keep updated with new health care trends and make achieve the say “the world became small village”.
• Utilizing videoconferencing in education seminars for remote locations.

2. Consumer medical and health information

includes the use of the Internet for consumers to obtain specialized health information and on-line discussion groups to provide peer-to-peer support.

Technical Features

• Our solution provides patient portal to enable patients:
• View lab results and x-ray images
• View his/her list of medication
• View home care Instructions
• View doctors appointments in dedicated hospital
• Reserve for a doctor appointment or lab tests
• View visits schedule after patient discharge
• View progress chart after patient discharge
• Contacting nurses online to reply and inform doctors with patients concerns



Health care consumers can access patient’s information according to their privileges to the system.

• Doctors are also provided with drug interaction alerts to drag the doctor attention for unsuitable medications.
• We believe that patients’ EMRs are much like mailboxes containing all patient medical history accessible from anywhere.

Utilities accompanied with the solution

• Mail Manager to manage sent and received mails
• Send / receive log
• Print document
• Image and image tools for image annotation
• User manager to manage system users and their privileges
• Audit tracker to track crucial information audits from the moment it has been inserted to update and delete

Data Security and other Issues

• How the solution maintains data security?
  1. Our solution stores and retrieves images and data using its own interface and stores it in encrypted format for highly secured information.
  2. Each authorized system user has his/her own privileges to limit the editing of data to responsible people.
  3. Our solution provides auditing system to keep track of data from the moment being inserted to update and delete actions.
  4. Preventing Alteration of document during transmission by poor communication line or by hackers or by unauthorized users.

• Will the poor communication media which are very noisy and slow affect the quality of images and videos?

The solution transmits images & videos from one site to other as they are without alteration of a single bit. You do not lose information by using a poor communication medium it just takes longer for transferring information.  
The poor quality communication media will effect Real Time Telemedicine application resulting in reduced quality pictures in video conferencing.

• Can the solution be integrated with other applications?

The format in which data is encrypted can be recognizable for any other application thus it can be integrated with any other application authorized to do.

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Standards We Support    

Our solution works under the umbrella of National Health Information Model (NHIM) developed by Australian Health & Welfare Institute.

The NHIM building blocks are:

1. National Health Data Dictionary (NHDD)

The health care data standardization idea was initially introduced since 1989 by the Australian government and the commonwealth by introducing a conceptual way for standardizing the health care data, which is introduced in NHDD

Benefits of being compliant to NHDD

• Establish a core set of uniform definitions relating to the full range of health         services and a range of population parameters

• Promote uniformity, availability, reliability, validity, consistency and completeness           in the data

• Accord with nationally and internationally agreed protocols and standards, wherever possible

• Facilitate and promote the development of good data definitions across the health sector

2. Health Care Level Seven (HL7)

"Level seven" refers to the highest level of the (ISO) communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)

It’s messaging protocol that supports functions needed to exchange data on the application level

• Security checks

• Participant identification

• Availability checks

• Exchange mechanism negotiations

• Most importantly, data exchange structuring