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Nursing Informatics Telehealth Effect on Healthcare The innovation of computer technologies has push ed healthcare to new limits for both the good and the bad. Telehealth is the use of telecommunications such as computer, television monitors and mobile device technologies to transmit electronic inf...

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Running head: TELEHEALTH EFFECT 1




Telehealth Effect on Healthcare

Amie Seitz

Chamberlain College of Nursing

NR 512: Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics

October 2017




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, TELEHEALTH 2

Telehealth Effect on Healthcare

The innovation of computer technologies has pushed healthcare to new limits for both the

good and the bad. Telehealth is the use of telecommunications such as computer, television

monitors and mobile device technologies to transmit electronic information (Markwick,

McConnochie & Wood, 2015). Telehealth provides for and expanded care for patients and a new

avenue of practice for nursing. Healthcare, as a consumer based product, can use telehealth as the

solution for keeping up with changing populations needs and growing use of technology. This

paper will focus on the healthIT topic of telehealth, the impact on nurse practice, the informatics

skills and knowledge, and end with a conclusion and what this nurse learned about telehealth.

HealthIT Topic

The topic of telehealth was selected due to the impact on future practice. Telehealth has

the ability to revolutionize the way healthcare is delivered and provides for advancing

technology. For years nursing has used forms of primitive telehealth, such as telephones and

letters to communicate and corridinate care and with the advent of the computer and video there

is a unparrelled ability to provide nursing care to all in need (Rutledge et al., 2017). According

to Sweeney there has been an increase from 34% to 50% of insurance executives over 4 years

that are stating that they will be implementing and growing current telehealth programs within

their companies (2017). Growth that big in telemedicine is a hot issue that will affect nursing

practice in many ways. Telehealth can provide lower cost healthcare to patients as well as give

patients easier access to providers (Rutledge et al., 2017). According to the Centers for Medicare

and Medicaid Services, the use of telehealth will be a cost-effective alternative to the traditional

face-to-face patient consultation and can be used in areas where there is a lack of providers, such

as in rural areas, or if travel is burdensome for the patient (Medicaid.gov, n.d.). The terms




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