7^th International Conference on Telemedicine, eHealth & Health Informatics November 16-17, 2018 | Mercure Albert Park | Melbourne, Australia

Telehealth presently aligns the clinical, operational, financial, and strategic effectiveness of a telehealth program. It mainly assists healthcare decision makers in launching sustainable telehealth services within clinically integrated healthcare systems Telehealth is a modern form of health care delivery. Telehealth breaks away from traditional medical care delivery by using recent telecommunication systems including wireless methods. Traditional use of telehealth services has been for specialist treatment. Telehealth is not a determined service, but a collection of means to enhance medical care and education delivery.

Digital health is the linking of genomic and digital technologies with health, healthcare and society to enhance the efficiency of clinical care delivery and make medicines more personalized and precise. It involves the use of information and communication technologies to help address the health problems and challenges faced by patients. These technologies include both hardware and software solutions and services, including email, mobile phones, web-based analysis, and applications, text messages, and clinic or remote monitoring sensors. Generally, digital health is concerned about the development of interconnected health systems to improve the use of computational technologies, smart devices, computational analysis techniques and communication media to aid healthcare professionals and patients manage illnesses and health risks, as well as promote health and wellbeing. Digital health is a multi-disciplinary domain which involves many stakeholders, including clinicians, researchers and scientists with a wide range of expertise in healthcare, engineering, social sciences, public health, health economics and management.

Telenursing is the use of communications technology in nursing to enhance patient care. It involved the use of electromagnetic channels such as wires, radio and optical to transmit voice, data and video communications using electrical or optical transmissions between humans or the computer. It involves patient and client interaction through information technology.  It is part of telehealth and as well as telemedicine, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as tele diagnosis, teleconsultation, and telemonitoring. telenursing is the provision of nursing care to subjects living at remote places using distance communications technology. The tele nurses should have adequate knowledge and skill to support patient needs and make accurate decisions.

Telepharmacy is an instance of the telemedicine phenomenon, this instance helps in delivering the medicine to people who do not have direct contact to the pharmacy. Through pharmacy sites, hospitals, nursing homes, or other medical care facilities the Telepharmacy services are delivered. The process of implementing the Telepharmacy varies from place to place and also depending upon the geographic locations laws, regulations and also the economics condition.

Telecardiology uses the latest telecommunication techniques to remotely diagnose and treat heart diseases including coronary heart disease, chronic and acute, as well as arrhythmias, congestive cardiac failure and sudden cardiac arrest. In this the doctors uses the electrocardiographic data provided in real time, this real time electrocardiographic data is the analyzed and a oral report is given. The data is then stored in databases so the they can be used again for further processing.

Health Systems informatics (HSI) is a healthcare consulting firm and mainly focused on delivering high-quality consulting and support services enabling healthcare institutions to meet the ARRA and HITECH requirements through efficient Electronic Medical Record (EMR) accomplishment and optimization resulting in relevant Use. Built on a justification of strapping, diverse, healthcare talent and a “clients as partners” business criteria, HIS was started   to provide   support in today’s ever-changing healthcare society.

Medical Informatics Engineering mainly targets the delivery of medical care over the entire patient care cycle, which includes treatment, medications, monitoring and checkups screening, vaccination, preventive medicine, diagnosis. Model-based decision tools create engineered innovations in clinical operations, individual treatment choice and supporting supply chains to advance safe, high-quality, consistent and accessible healthcare while avoiding unnecessary costs. HSE focuses on the design of engineered processes to combine resources and support clinical decision making to assure its effective implementation over the entire course of a patient’s care.

Medical Informatics application is organized with   knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health   related problems and improve quality of lives. This includes the pharmaceuticals, devices, instruments, procedures and organizational systems used in health care. The main agenda of social services are to provide better with respect to health services in rural and urban areas. Medical Informatics Research also involves research of proteomes from the level of intracellular protein composition, structure, and its unique activity patterns. It is an important component of functional genomics.

There has been a constant change in the rules and regulations of the telemedicine with the introduction of new legislations and policy by medical associations. The changing regulations also determines the rules followed by the telemedicine companies and private payers in that state. The telemedicine regulations can vary from state to state based on the geography and also the economic conditions of the country.

Tele-home health mainly involves at typical day in the life of a home telehealth Patient. Cancer patients often are treated surgically resulting in the need for temporary or permanent ostomies which are surgically created openings in the body for the discharge of body wastes. They utilize inexpensive videophone equipment connecting to the patient’s home through ordinary telephone lines to connect. They mainly include ostomy care, cardiac transplant care, passionate oncology care.

Cancer informatics is a multidisciplinary field of medical science that deals with the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize storage, retrieval, acquisition and use of information in the field of cancer research and treatment. Research in cancer biology has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of clinical, medical and research data, in particular with genomic and molecular cancer data. The data can benefit researchers understanding of cancer behavior and development of better therapy and treatment, new and improved data management and analysis tools are needed. Cancer informatics attempts to provide those tools that interconnect research, clinical activities, and data in an organized and efficient manner, with as broad a database as possible. The coupling of cancer informatics tools with computational modeling and statistical analysis will accelerate the goal of making cancer a more treatable if not curable disease. Cancer informatics mainly helps in management and distribution of annotated molecular data for further research and also for the analysis of an individual tumor to determine its molecular phenotype

Patient Informatics is a new aspect of Medical Informatics that largely reflects the empowered healthcare consumer. Patients are aware that many non-healthcare businesses are automating and modernizing their business processes to attract a larger market share. Web portals are web-based programs that patients can access health services. A web portal can be a standalone program or it can be integrated with an electronic health record. Patient portals began as a web-based entrance to a healthcare system for the purpose of learning about a hospital, healthcare system or physician’s practice. Patients would like to have the same automation and convenience of an ATM machine applied to healthcare. Patients are using the Internet as the medical library of choice before and after seeing clinicians. Patient web portals are now available that are standalone or integrated with electronic health records that offer a multitude of patient-oriented services

Healthcare technology continues to advance at remarkable rates. The use of technical knowledge in the field of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems to improve the quality of life is called as Health care technology. This knowledge includes pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures and organizational systems used in health care. The assessment of the technology is very important as it is helpful in finding out about the efficacy, cost, safety, feasibility. The assessment is used to explore the various reasons for adopting a new technology. The adaptation and utilization of technology will depend upon the need.