Telehealth and Telemedicine will change the way we globally address healthcare. Telehealth encompasses a broad range of technologies and services to provide patient care and improve the healthcare delivery system as a whole. Telemedicine is a subset of telehealth that refers solely to the provision of health care services and education over a distance, through the use of telecommunications technology.
We expect to order an item online but return it to a physical store and buy groceries online but drive a physical location for quick pickup. This digital transformation has been ongoing in many other industries for years and has now arrived in healthcare.
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) IoMT is a network of connected devices that generate, collect, transmit, and analyze data. This market consists of many types of devices such as wearables, implanted devices, and stationary machines that connect and communicate with each other as well as health systems.
The benefits of wearables is becoming part of everyday life for patients and healthcare providers.
The biggest obstacle in physical therapy has been for people to change their mindset and accept that it can also be done virtually with excellent outcomes.
Teleheath will create better care for our senior population. They are is almost twice as likely to develop serious complications than the younger population.
Karyn Mullins, President, Healthcare Staffing Technologies (a Jackson Heathcare Company) has a passion for disruptive telemedicine technologies and utilizing them to improve companies and the customers they serve.