Assignment: Telemedicine IT Components
Telemedicine projects have been successfully undertaken for over fifty years, from the most basic use of a telephone to transmit medical data to complex applications within the extreme environments of Earth.
Today, telemedicine enables physicians to provide opinions concerning a patient's medical condition within a physically separated environment.
Consider the technical challenges and cost-saving benefits associated with telemedicine. Then, answer the following questions:
• What are some of the technical challenges of a telemedicine project?
• How might telemedicine-based services impact the overall cost of health care delivery? What cost savings can be realized with telemedicine in industries, both inside and outside of health care?
• How does the choice of telecommunications conduit, such as broadband, Wi-Fi Satellite, etc. affect what can be done through telemedicine? How have advances in computer- and network-related hardware impacted the spread of telemedicine projects worldwide?
• What might be a future application of telemedicine?
• What are some risks associated with telemedicine? How can those be mitigated?
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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