Question

Pretend you are a member of the Health Professional-IT Innovation Council in a community hospital system. The council is exploring the use of smartphones as support for recently discharged patients with chronic illnesses. You are asked to investigate the potential of such a system and to present your findings to the council.

Assignment Use information from the text as well as information from scholarly and Internet sources.

Define the main concepts of your presentation and provide an outline (in MS Word) of the key points you will make. Include consideration of workflow and resistance that you learned about in Chapter 10.

Answer 1

Answer: The use of Advanced technology provides better opportunity in the heathcare organization to provides better facilities to the patients as well as the staff members. The device used to deliver the healthcare information to the Patients via phone can be beneficial for the patients as with the phone the healthcare professionals can be directly in the contact with the patients. The healthcare provider can easily guide and inform the patient's about the medication as well as patient can also directly contact to the healthcare professionals.

This can also delivers the medical Information, recipient as well as the patients can easily get their bills directly on the phone.The smart phones can be used to have a telehealth which can remove the barrier between the patient and healthcare providers.