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Benefits of Telemedicine during Natural Disasters

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Benefits of Telemedicine during Natural Disasters

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  1. Benefits of Telemedicine during Natural Disasters

  2. (800) 670 2809 With any natural disaster comes the collapse of your healthcare infrastructure. Natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey have presented a unique way to showcase telemedicine, which is the practice of delivering medical care remotely using communications technology. Physicians providing telehealth services can rely on medical transcription companiesto maintain timely and accurate patient records. www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  3. (800) 670 2809 American Academy of Family Physicians – Survey 1 78% of physicians believed the use of telemedicine improved both access to and the quality of healthcare 2 • 68% said that continuity of care was improved by telemedicine 3 • Only 15% doctors had used telemedicine technology www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  4. (800) 670 2809 Benefits of telemedicine services • Care within minutes without waiting for a physician appointment 1 2 3 4 5 • Reduced costs compared to a routine doctor's office visit • Convenient options as providers can be accessed anywhere anytime • Improved consultations among physicians • Improved follow-up www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  5. (800) 670 2809 With telemedicine services, healthcare providers can 1 • Help victims avoid the time needed to be transported to another affected area 2 • Reduce the risk of untreated injuries and exacerbated illnesses • Treat non-emergency conditions such as bee stings, insect bites, and wounds or rashes 3 4 • Help people refill medications that may have been lost due to flooding • Advice the public on whether they need to see a physician or emergency care provider, or whether they can go to an urgent care center, or to a clinic in a local shelter 5 www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  6. (800) 670 2809 Factors responsible for the popularity of telemedicine are • Faster internet connections • The widespread use of smart • phones and tablets as personal devices • The development of commercial • software platforms that support • real-time scheduling and billing of • provider-patient videoconferences www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  7. (800) 670 2809 • However, to make telemedicine work for routine needs and as a disaster response strategy, physicians must adopt technology with videoconferencing capabilities and have a reliable high-speed network for file sharing, cloud storage, and teleconferencing. 1 2 • Secure electronic health record (EHR) systems are also crucial to capture, store and share sensitive health data in a safe manner. Physicians can consider medical transcription outsourcingto meet their clinical documentation requirements. www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

  8. CONTACT US: (800) 670 2809 Headquarters:8596 E. 101st Street, Suite HTulsa, OK 74133 Phone: (800) 670 2809 Thank You www.medicaltranscriptionservicecompany.com

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