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Current Clinical Status of Telehealth in Korea: Categories, Scientific Basis, and Obstacles

OBJECTIVES: Through telehealth, medical services have expanded beyond spatial boundaries and are now available in living spaces outside of hospitals. It can also contribute to patient medical knowledge improvement because patients can access their hospital records and data from home. However, concep...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hun-Sung, Kim, Hyunah, Lee, Suehyun, Lee, Kye Hwa, Kim, Ju Han
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659881/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26618030
http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2015.21.4.244
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author Kim, Hun-Sung
Kim, Hyunah
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Lee, Kye Hwa
Kim, Ju Han
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description OBJECTIVES: Through telehealth, medical services have expanded beyond spatial boundaries and are now available in living spaces outside of hospitals. It can also contribute to patient medical knowledge improvement because patients can access their hospital records and data from home. However, concepts of telehealth are rather vague in Korea. METHODS: We refer to several clinical reports to determine the current clinical status of and obstacles to telehealth in Korea. RESULTS: Patients' health conditions are now reported regularly to doctors remotely, and patients can receive varied assistance. Self-improvement based on minute details that are beyond medical staff's reach is another possible benefit that may be realized with the help of a variety of medical equipment (sensors). The feasibility, clinical effect, and cost-benefit of telehealth have been verified by scientific evidence. CONCLUSIONS: Patients will be able to improve their treatment adherence by receiving help from various professionals, such as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and sports therapists. This means that the actual treatment time per patient will increase as well. Ultimately, this will increase the quality of patients' self-administration of care to impede disease progression and prevent complications.
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spelling pubmed-46598812015-11-29 Current Clinical Status of Telehealth in Korea: Categories, Scientific Basis, and Obstacles Kim, Hun-Sung Kim, Hyunah Lee, Suehyun Lee, Kye Hwa Kim, Ju Han Healthc Inform Res Review Article OBJECTIVES: Through telehealth, medical services have expanded beyond spatial boundaries and are now available in living spaces outside of hospitals. It can also contribute to patient medical knowledge improvement because patients can access their hospital records and data from home. However, concepts of telehealth are rather vague in Korea. METHODS: We refer to several clinical reports to determine the current clinical status of and obstacles to telehealth in Korea. RESULTS: Patients' health conditions are now reported regularly to doctors remotely, and patients can receive varied assistance. Self-improvement based on minute details that are beyond medical staff's reach is another possible benefit that may be realized with the help of a variety of medical equipment (sensors). The feasibility, clinical effect, and cost-benefit of telehealth have been verified by scientific evidence. CONCLUSIONS: Patients will be able to improve their treatment adherence by receiving help from various professionals, such as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, and sports therapists. This means that the actual treatment time per patient will increase as well. Ultimately, this will increase the quality of patients' self-administration of care to impede disease progression and prevent complications. Korean Society of Medical Informatics 2015-10 2015-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4659881/ /pubmed/26618030 http://dx.doi.org/10.4258/hir.2015.21.4.244 Text en © 2015 The Korean Society of Medical Informatics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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