Seniors in rural towns, have many obstacles to overcome when it comes to receiving healthcare. Technology, like 3M’s wireless stethoscope can record a patient’s heartbeat for them to transfer and analyze the sounds later. Wireless technology today allows crucial information to be shared between the employee and the employer. The organization, whether it be a hospital, rehabilitation facility or hospice, has the opportunity to seize the data necessary for both analysis and retention. Only can the leadership of the organization implement proper procedures to ensure the necessary data is quantified and shared with other department heads and or organizations to complete the plan of care.
This quality of care is enhanced with better and faster means of communication, whether it be skype, sharing documents online or editing plans-of-action with team members all over the world. Technology has been very good to us, but the time of emails, voicemails and “getting back to you”, are terms that are viewed more and more as an excuse to wait the problem out to the new leadership.
According to Denise Ferguson, the administrator at Colorado Comprehensive Spine, technology can assist in overcoming obstacles, but the drive for “community, “ must morph from within the community. Denise worked in Alaska for two years and said she gained 10 years worth of experience. In areas without a basic concept of healthcare, where smoking and drinking are the highest forms of social-interaction; virtual medicine is a better way to treat patients.
In rural towns where air flights replace two-hour drives; there are care centers that don’t have Intensive Care Units (ICU’s), which protects the care center from delivering babies and treating trauma. A trained specialist can look, review and give treatment advice to a patient, without the expense of paying to see a physician. In area like this, 50-70% of patients have to be transported anyway, according to Denise.
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A trained specialist can look, review and give treatment advice to a patient, without the expense of paying to see a physician. In area like this, 50-70% of patients have to be transported anyway, according to Denise.
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