TeleHealth and TeleMedicine

Catalog description

This course serves as an introduction to TeleHealth concentration. The development of Information Technology (“IT”) has led to a wider number of healthcare services available. These include TeleMedicine, which uses information technology to enable specialists to provide healthcare to patients at a distance. TeleHealth, an expansion of TeleMedicine, refers to the general use of IT to support patient monitoring, patient education, and better management of the delivery of healthcare. We will examine these TeleHealth and TeleMedicine service by first understanding how communication networks function and what a TeleMedicine system consist of. We will as examine the diverse range of IT medical services that be supported. These include drug prescription, spread of pandemic modeling, patient monitoring, remote operation and medical databases. We will examine TeleHealth and TeleMedicine in the perspective of healthcare professions, patient and regulatory agencies.