Telemedicine Technology – The Future of Healthcare

After years of the first initialization phase, the telemedicine platform is finally up and living up to its potential. Driven by faster internet connection, ever-increasing global networking and the changing insurance and medicare telemedicine standards more and more health providers are turning to electronic communications for doing their jobs.

The delivery of various healthcare services, including telemedicine is helping people who are living in remote locations to connect better with the medical experts from around the globe. Doctors are linking up with their patients by phone, webcam and emails. They are also consulting each other electronically and also making use of this platform to take some serious split-second decisions for critical condition of patient.

Patients are meanwhile, using this platform to relay their heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs with their doctors for taking care of their health and managing their chronic condition, at the comfort of sitting at home. This platform also facilitates better healthcare in locations where finding a medical expertise is hard to come by.

Telemedicine services are bridging the wide gap between various countries by providing quality medical healthcare services on time. Various African countries with remote medical facilities like Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia and Nigeria are getting more connected and can avail expert advice through video calling consultations and get genuine medical prescription from medical experts.

If you have been living with prolonged physical disabilities or simply facing the challenges of aging, you can now place a request for a home physiotherapy session. With personal assistance, you can maintain your regular work cycle at your own home. Telemedicine has empowered people to live a safe and an independent way of life. With facilities like personal video consultations and home care assistance, now healthcare is just a click away.

Although the telemedicine platform has brought major advancements in remote patient care facility, yet there are still some challenges to be faced. Like one, the telemedicine regulations are different from state to state or are constantly changing, which means there is no unanimous law enforced all across the globe. Secondly telemedicine is still not a very common term among the consumers. In a survey conducted, almost 39% of the people have not heard of telemedicine services.

This is a major issue to be resolved especially for the benefit of the physicians. Lastly, some critics place their doubts on the quality that the consumer might be trading for convenience when it comes to telemedicine in comparison to in-person doctor’s office visit.

Mobihealth is a telemedicine platform which can empowering people especially the ones living in rural areas to get medical services on time without travelling long distances.
We are here to provide those remote patients who are in need of a medical service provider with facilities like personal video consultations and home care assistance.