Telehealth? Telemedicine? EHR... EMR? These terms have gained a lot of traction in today's new world of healthcare... but what do they all mean?
Telemedicine is tremendous in itself - the ability to cure or to provide medical services remotely is an exceptional commodity created by recent advances in technology. Though, telemedicine does not tell the whole story - the patient's story.
If we treat each patient as a series of isolated treatments, procedures, or illnesses, we are treating the patient as a commodity. Technology fuels a tendency to fragment. A patient is not a fragmentation, nor a composition of fragmented illnesses. We must not forget that the commodity is the technology used to cure - and not the patient.
This is where Telehealth comes into play. Telehealth is there to remind us of the humanistic aspect of a patient's health, and rightfully so. A patient is a human being at the end of all the data, facts and measurements used in their health assessment.
The explanation of the differences between an EHR and an EMR can be explained similarly.
An EHR is an Electronic Health Record, and an EMR is an Electronic Medical Record.
An EMR pertains to data and information relative to a medical occurrence, such as data from medical tests, reported symptoms, medications, physician's observations, etc.
An EMR can be thought of as a single database record in the patient's health database - which is the EHR.
The EHR contains not only a plentitude of data derived from medical records (EMRs), it contains a perspective on the data overall - the overall health of the patient.
Today's leading mobile healthcare applications, built in with advanced EHR capabilities, are packaged with extended analytics and intelligence derived from a patient's data: their EMRs.
Here are seven reasons why familiarizing yourself with the phonetic terms as well as the functional terms of mobile healthcare technology is a must:
1. Today's world of medicine is ever-complicated with health regulations, mandates, changes, etc., what better to way keep track of everything than with a comprehensive mobile solution?
2. The delivery of medical services with the use of mobile technology does not pose a threat to the security of the patient nor to the integrity of the practitioner, when done correctly.
3. Technology does exist in today’s scope of telehealth to meet this need.
4. The enforcement and mandate of EHRs in the field of medicine means that healthcare technology’s use and importance can no longer be denied.
5. Incentives exist for a physician's implementation and use of the EHR in their practice, not to mention the limitless incentives incurred when a patient has access and control over their healthcare.
6. Mobile healthcare applications facilitate an ease off of physicians through the simplification of the billing process with insurance companies. No longer is there a need to evaluate different forms for a procedure: the app will assist you.
7. Why telehealth... Why not?
Today's leading mobile healthcare applications, built in with advanced EHR capabilities, are packaged with extended analytics and intelligence derived from a patient's data: their EMRs.
Here are seven reasons why familiarizing yourself with the phonetic terms as well as the functional terms of mobile healthcare technology is a must:
1. Today's world of medicine is ever-complicated with health regulations, mandates, changes, etc., what better to way keep track of everything than with a comprehensive mobile solution?
2. The delivery of medical services with the use of mobile technology does not pose a threat to the security of the patient nor to the integrity of the practitioner, when done correctly.
3. Technology does exist in today’s scope of telehealth to meet this need.
4. The enforcement and mandate of EHRs in the field of medicine means that healthcare technology’s use and importance can no longer be denied.
5. Incentives exist for a physician's implementation and use of the EHR in their practice, not to mention the limitless incentives incurred when a patient has access and control over their healthcare.
6. Mobile healthcare applications facilitate an ease off of physicians through the simplification of the billing process with insurance companies. No longer is there a need to evaluate different forms for a procedure: the app will assist you.
7. Why telehealth... Why not?
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