Broadband tools overcome barriers for quality healthcare
We have discussed the impact that broadband access can have on healthcare for some time. With the help of our friends at App-rising.com, we are taking a deeper look into the specific ways expanded and improved broadband access can improve healthcare.
App-rising lists ten applications that can improve the quality, speed, and communication of various medical procedures. Here are a few that we are most excited about:
- Remote examinations: Whether in a medical facility, at home, or outside and on the go, through broadband doctors can examine patients anywhere through a combination of videoconferencing and integrated diagnostic tools. In this way doctors can start examining patients immediately after injuries happen, they can consult with patients who get to stay in their homes and save the drive into the office, psychologists can conduct psychological examinations on prison inmates without moving them from their cells, and so much more. All using broadband to empower two-way high quality video communication.
- Patient monitoring: In addition to specific examinations, through broadband medical professionals can keep tabs on ailing patients without having to physically be at their sides at all times. Robots can monitor ICU patients, retirement facilities can share personnel between buildings to save costs as they keep a 24-hour vigil, and bed-ridden patients at home can have their health monitored around the clock. All possible through ubiquitous high-speed broadband.
- Patient/family communication: It used to be an ailing patient's only connections to the outside world whether they were in the hospital or at home were the telephone for talking to friends and family and the television for keeping up to date on what's happening in the world. Now through broadband they can not only have instant access to the world news, they can communicate face-to-face with loved ones through videoconferencing while also being able to learn about their condition and treatments as they recover.
These apps on App-rising's complete list will all help to make improve the practice of healthcare in this nation. Furthermore, through broadband these tools facilitate the expansion of timely and high quality medical services to all areas of the country.
Only with more expansive and more reliable broadband access, will doctors, care givers, and patients be equipped with these tools to enhance the practice of healthcare.
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