Understanding Telehealth: Revolutionizing Healthcare Access and Delivery (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Welcome to Kalkine's educational series. Thank you for trusting us with the most reliable content. My name is Sam and let us see the topic for today. It's telehealth. So what is telehealth? Well, telehealth is the delivery of healthcare services by conquering distance and providing access to patients who cannot travel. Telehealth can achieve universal health coverage by improving access to quality and cost-effective health services to patients wherever they may be. Now you must be wondering, how does telehealth work? Telehealth uses information and communications technology for exchanging information in order to diagnose and treat diseases and injuries, research, evaluation and continuing education of health professionals. Further, it can be used remotely from home or by doctors in their clinics to make healthcare services as accessible as possible. People can use smart gadgets like personal computers, tablets or mobile phones to check most healthcare data including prescriptions, laboratory appointments among others. Now let us discuss the types of telehealth technologies that are available. To begin with, several technologies are being implemented for telehealth, which include mHealth or mobile health, video and audio technologies, remote patient monitoring, digital photography, store and forward technologies. To sum up, let's discuss what is the main objective of telehealth. Telehealth has several important goals that benefit healthcare as a system and patients as consumers. With telehealth, people who reside in rural areas can easily access healthcare services including prescriptions or sick notes. It plays a critical role for disabled or old people who are not as mobile as average citizens. With telehealth, most information is available online for members who quickly download or check when required. Telehealth enhances the overall healthcare system by connecting more staff members online. Now you must be wondering, can doctors provide health documents using telehealth? Let's say that in case people feel unwell or cannot physically visit a doctor for a specific reason, doctors can send numerous health documents to patients. People can receive pharmaceutical prescriptions, specialist referrals, several medical certificates or pathology appointments using telehealth technology. To sum up, let's see who can benefit the most from telehealth services. Telehealth is valuable for people living in remote areas, vulnerable groups and ageing population. Telehealth is also ideal for individuals in a similar situation as the system allows a 24x7 service for all patients in need. No matter the distance, registered doctors on call will answer all queries. Well, that's all for now. We hope you got a better understanding about telehealth. For more such educational tips, please visit our website www.calcinemedia.com and do subscribe to our YouTube channel. Till then, stay upright and invest wise with Calcine.