FEATURE TELEMEDICINE
the patients; as well as reducing expensive medical transport for patients and staff. The benefits of video-conferencing solutions have been especially realised in three distinct areas of the healthcare industry. These are: patient consultation, administration, and medical education.
THE ROLE OF VIDEO CONFERENCING IN MEDICAL EDUCATION There’s no doubt telemedicine plays a huge role in the area of medical education. The production of qualified medical staff is a constant requirement for healthcare systems across the globe, and UC can aid with the education of new medical staff by sharing access to medical lectures, clinical skills and remote tuition, virtually connecting students and lecturers. Whether knowledge transfer takes place at the bedside, in the operating room, in the classroom, or at a remote site, video and audio conferencing technology can bring the classroom to the medical professional. This is thanks to desktop solutions enabling healthcare professionals to use their PCs for high definition video calls with colleagues from anywhere. The physician or practitioner can easily control the far-end camera, sharing medical content live over video. Furthermore, the ongoing professional
development of clinicians is a legal requirement, with many professionals obliged to publish research materials, deliver lectures and attend society seminars. Educators would be able to attend video CME events from their home office or desktop, conduct video grand rounds sharing PC content, live patient encounters, or recorded procedures, or connect to nursing schools for up-to-date training and medical information. Other advantages include conducting administrative training and medical education using live or streaming video, as well as attending or delivering disaster preparedness training over a collaborative voice and video network
REQUIREMENTS FOR TELEMEDICINE There are three requirements that are key to integrating telemedicine into today’s health system and in medical education, and these are: training, the ability to create a secure platform, and bandwidth availability.
Training: Very little training is required in order for a physician to use telemedicine. Medical systems and other devices in the hospital are often far more complicated to operate in comparison to using a telemedicine solution. With as little as a thirty-minute training session, a physician can be shown how to make a call, manipulate the remote camera, and send or receive vital signs or other patient modalities. In addition to training the user, the
solution itself can be simplified by using an intuitive touch screen, which is often used in large scale deployments, such as oncology meeting rooms, lecture theatres or operating
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rooms. The touch screen remote can perform many tasks by selecting a single on-screen button, therefore users can quickly select the single or multiple modalities they need to discuss while in their call. Using the touch screen has the added benefit of letting the users concentrate on the subject in hand. Training should be provided by the integrator as a standard part of the telemedicine solution, with scheduled refresher courses planned in advance to aid with familiarisation.
Creating a secure platform: Hospitals can stipulate, by default, that all video-conference based telemedicine calls are encrypted as standard practice. Encryption is built-in to the telemedicine hardware, the network infrastructure and even the recording devices (should they be implemented) thereby raising the level of security. In addition, there are extra techniques
network administrators can employ to take security a step further. These include identifying and managing telemedicine calls through a gatekeeper – a standard
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