From RCRWireless:
Kagan: Telehealth improves emergency healthcare
Telehealth, or telemedicine, uses modern electronics and telecommunications technology to connect patients to medical services, long-distance. Wireless is playing a growing role in this important and growing space. As it continues to advance, telehealth is now taking healthcare to new levels in areas which is important for doctors, patients, tech companies and investors.
Many different medical specialties are finding new ways to use this new technology to improve healthcare like neurology, radiology, oncology and in the emergency room.
That’s why telehealth is a rapidly growing segment of the healthcare marketplace. And using it for emergency care is a new area of focus that is helping this segment improve the delivery of life saving services.
Telemedicine medical devices use AI, IoT, cloud and wireless
There are a wide range of different companies and technologies in this space. And as each year passes, more breakthrough ideas are coming into focus.
These include Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, the cloud, wireless and wire line telecommunications, smartphone like technologies including wireless medical devices, and more.
That means, going forward this slice of the pie will continue to grow larger and become more important.
That’s why this is one of the most exciting times in the history of healthcare advancement.
Telehealth coming out party during COVID-19
We experienced new ways to think about caring for patients during the last few years as we wrestled with the pandemic Covid-19.
This was the coming-out-party for telehealth, which has been with us in different forms for a while already.
And just as this pandemic ushered in this new wave of medical technology, it won’t be the last. Over the years, we have experienced many pandemics to varying degrees.
Going forward, each new wave should also be a powerful growth engine for this entire space.
This time around many doctors and patients fumbled around with new technology and didn’t do as good a job as they had when things were in-person. This was part of the learning process.
However, during this time when we stayed apart, telehealth was a great way to get the care you needed while remaining safe at home.
Whether because of a pandemic or just limited patient mobility, telemedicine saves lives. That will only get better and stronger moving forward.
Telemedicine in healthcare is here to stay
As with anything else, it takes time and effort to change the way we think about medicine, the way we provide it, and the way we access it.
This is not unlike a decade and a half ago when the iPhone and Android were created. We were slowly learning and changing. Today, fifteen years later this marketplace is huge and impacts everyone in every aspect of their lives.
The app market exploded from under 500 to millions today.
Telehealth will take the same path. It is and will remain one of the most important areas of healthcare going forward. We will just have to get used to this new technology.