Telehealth and telemedicine: how the digital era is changing standard health care

El-Miedany, Yasser

doi:10.2147/shtt.s116009

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“…Smart health itself incorporates the essence of the digital transformation involved in the fourth industrial revolution, such as hyper-connectivity, superintelligence, and the convergence of science and technology [ 1 , 2 ] in the healthcare industry. Recently, the synergistic combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) [ 3 ], cloud computing [ 4 ], and big data technologies [ 5 , 6 ], as well as existing forms of information and communication technology (ICT) -based healthcare (e.g., “mobile health” [m-health] [ 7 , 8 ], “u-health” [ 9 , 10 ], and “tele-health,” [ 11 - 14 ]) has led to the notion of smart health. Of particular note, IoT enables physical devices to collect and exchange data in an automated way.…”

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Recent Patient Health Monitoring Platforms Incorporating Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Devices

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Synergistic integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and big data technologies in healthcare have led to the notion of “smart health.” Smart health is an emerging concept that refers to the provision of healthcare services for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up management at any time or any place by connecting information technologies and healthcare. As a significant breakthrough in smart healthcare development, IoT-enabled smart devices allow medical centers to carry out preventive care, diagnosis, and treatment more competently. This review focuses on recently developed patient health monitoring platforms based on IoT-enabled smart devices that can collect real-time patient data and transfer information for assessment by healthcare providers, including doctors, hospitals, and clinics, or for self-management. We aimed to summarize the available information about recently approved devices and state-of-the-art developments through a comprehensive, systematic literature review. In this review, we also discuss possible future directions for the integration of cloud computing and blockchain, which may offer unprecedented breakthroughs in on-demand medical services. The combination of IoT with real-time, remote patient monitoring empowers patients to assert more control over their care, thereby allowing them to actively monitor their particular health conditions.

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“…The virtual online consultancy based healthcare systems require the physician to transact on the blockchain to share medication prescription with the local pharmacy. Through the hash functions, blockchain technology can assist to eliminate the potential prescription errors and record alteration [59] , [60] . The registered pharmacists can access the drugs prescription stored on the blockchain to verify, prepare, and send the drugs to the patients.…”

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The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine

Ahmad

Salah

Jayaraman

et al. 2021

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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“…The virtual online consultancy based healthcare systems require the physician to transact on the blockchain to share medication prescription with the local pharmacy. Through the hash functions, blockchain technology can assist to eliminate the potential prescription errors and record alteration [42,43]. The registered pharmacists can access the drugs prescription stored on the blockchain to verify, prepare, and send the drugs to the patients.…”

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The Role of Blockchain Technology in Telehealth and Telemedicine

Ahmad¹,

Salah²,

Jayaraman³

et al. 2020

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<div><b>Objectives: </b>Telehealth and telemedicine systems aim to deliver remote healthcare services to mitigate the spread of COVID‐19. Also, they can help to manage scarce healthcare resources to control the massive burden of COVID-19 patients in hospitals. However, a large portion of today's telehealth and telemedicine systems are centralized and fall short of providing necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients' insurance claims and physician credentials.</div><div><b>Methods: </b>The current study has explored the potential opportunities and adaptability challenges for blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine sector. It has explored the key role that blockchain technology can play to provide necessary information security and privacy, operational transparency, health records immutability, and traceability to detect frauds related to patients' insurance claims and physician credentials.</div><div><b>Results: </b>Blockchain technology can improve telehealth and telemedicine services by offering remote healthcare services in a manner that is decentralized, tamper-proof, transparent, traceable, reliable, trustful, and secure. It enables health professionals to accurately identify frauds related to physician educational credentials and medical testing kits commonly used for home-based diagnosis.</div><div><b>Conclusions: </b>Wide deployment of blockchain in telehealth and telemedicine technology is still in its infancy. Several challenges and research problems need to be resolved to enable the widespread adoption of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine systems.</div><div> </div><div><br></div>

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Telehealth and telemedicine: how the digital era is changing standard health care

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Recent Patient Health Monitoring Platforms Incorporating Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Devices

Recent Patient Health Monitoring Platforms Incorporating Internet of Things-Enabled Smart Devices

The role of blockchain technology in telehealth and telemedicine

The Role of Blockchain Technology in Telehealth and Telemedicine

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