CES 2021: Telemedicine Lauded as Healthcare Success Story of 2020

2021年消费电子展上的卫生技术专家讲述了远程医疗在过去一年中改善患者护理的方式。

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The telemedicine boom of 2020 affected all parts of the healthcare system. iStock (5)

Consumer Electronics Show 2021,实际上本周举行的是,产生最多嗡嗡声的主题之一是远程医疗。美国远程医疗协会的首席执行官,安·蒙德·约翰逊(Ann Mond Johnson), who moderated the panel “Telehealth: Augmenting the Experience with Technology,” called the rise of telehealth nothing short of “meteoric.”

俗话说,必要是发明的母亲,以及小说冠状病毒的迅速传播,导致了2019冠状病毒病大流行, has also led to the rapid adoption of virtual medicine. With a highly contagious disease感染数百万, people have been forced to stay home. That situation has driven the healthcare industry to come up with innovative ways to diagnose, advise, and treat patients remotely.

技术与医疗保健企业家德鲁·席勒(Drew Schiller)强调了退伍军人事务部(VA)的数据,该数据说明了远程医疗在大流行期间如何爆炸。Figures from the VAshow that telehealth video appointments usingVA视频连接在2月至2020年5月之间增加了1,000%。

“Overnight, the industry just flipped from in-person to virtual, and it’s fantastic to see how fast we were able to make that switch,” said Schiller during the panel on telehealth.

New Tools Enable Monitoring Patient Health Remotely

As the CEO ofValidic, Schiller heads a business that produces systems that provide continuous access to personal health data from nearly 500 possible in-home medical devices and wearables. These in-home medical devices capture biometric data from blood pressure monitors, blood glucose meters, heart rate monitors, connected scales, prescription compliance devices, pulse oximeters, sleep trackers, spirometers (to measure breathing), and thermometers.

席勒认为,这种方法的优势在于,该系统记录了一个人的日常生活中连续的健康信息,而不仅仅是每次身体访问中测量的时间点数据。

“This actually provides a more robust, comprehensive view of what’s happening in a person’s life,” says Schiller. He underscores that this type of tool does not replace in-person care but makes it more efficient.

When a point-in-time measurement is wanted, theMedWand tool可用于连接到智能手机或平板电脑,以便医生可以远程检查生命体征和其他健康参数。

Medwand具有数字听诊器,耳镜(耳朵),皮肤镜(用于皮肤),喉咙照明器和传感器,以测量温度,呼吸速度,心率和氧气水平。

Medwand首席执行官Samir Qamar在CES的会议上说:“这种手持医疗设备使我们能够通过互联网上的任何地方检查患者。”

有关的:Medwand消除了患者护理的地理障碍

数十位医生和患者都注册远程医疗

In the CES conference session “Telemedicine Skyrockets to Mainstream,”杰森·戈尔维奇(Jason Gorevic),首席执行官Teladoc Health,解释了2020年远程医疗成为主流的一年。

“Everyone went from saying, ‘Telehealth?那是什么?Is that for me?’ to ‘Virtual care is the future, it’s the present, and it’s part of my expectations for how I’m going to get care,” says Gorevic.“Overnight, our volume doubled.”

仅需几分钟即可注册,使用Teladoc的人可以与医生,治疗师和专家联系,他们可以帮助您解决更多较小的健康问题,例如流感,感染,焦虑,压力和皮肤状况,并提供有关建议的建议获得可能需要面对面护理的严重医疗问题的帮助。

Today, more than 7,000 physicians are part of the Teladoc medical group, and healthcare systems and hospitals have been adopting the Teladoc technology platform to further the care they provide.

在同一会话中,Varsha Rao,首席执行官Nurx, elaborated on how her business has been able to target a younger market that is perhaps more readily open to embracing technology. With college health centers closing down during the pandemic,Nurx建立了一项在线“大学枢纽”卫生服务,重点是计划生育,,,,bepaly开户网址 测试,预防和治疗;和migraine treatment

Rao说:“我们已经看到大量的大学生来到我们这里寻求他们在大学社区中获得的关心。”

医院通过视频会议改善紧急护理

For virtual medicine to succeed, healthcare providers need to embrace the technology, and CES sessions spotlighted how healthcare institutions have been integrating virtual technology into their systems.

医学博士Rich Zane,科罗拉多州奥罗拉(Aurora)的12院系统(UC Health)的首席创新官和急诊医学专家强调,其虚拟健康中心如何允许医生,护士和技术人员每周24小时,每天24小时监视患者。其紧急虚拟健康技术使专家能够通过视频会议与当地急诊科医生进行咨询,以帮助特定的患者紧急情况,例如中风or trauma.

Zane博士说:“我们称其为远程医疗和虚拟健康,但没有任何虚拟的。”“我们提供的是实际护理。我宁愿称其为“技术支持的实际护理”,但这并不像“虚拟护理”或“远程医疗”那样很好地脱离舌头。”

像加州大学健康(UC Health)一样,总部位于纽约市大都市地区的诺斯韦尔(Northwell Health)一直致力于将远程医疗纳入其医疗保健系统。诺斯韦尔(Northwell)建立了一个框架,可以为患者提供虚拟医生探访,并且它也可以将专家与寻求急诊护理的患者联系起来。

心理保健是远程医疗的亮点

在会议上发表讲话“远程医疗飞扬到主流”艾里斯·伯曼(Iris Berman),RN, vice president of telehealth services for Northwell, pointed to mental healthcare as one of the success stories in telemedicine.

伯曼告诉《日常健康》:“远程医疗对于行为健康问题来说是一个很棒的事情 - 这是您可以使用它的最佳方法之一。我们有一个特殊的房间,患者去了,协助者确保患者安全。我们确保设备已经准备就绪,并且我们可以在一天中的任何时候吸引我们的精神科医生进行行为健康干预。”

在远程医疗之前,急诊室的精神病患者可能会花24至36个小时等待精神科医生她补充说,进来看他们。远程医疗咨询也直接向家里的患者提供。

Access Disparities Mean Telehealth Still Is Not Available to All

伯曼强调,远程医疗面临挑战。她希望看到更多的宽带访问权限和负担得起的设备交付给服务不足的人群,他们可能总是能够获得优质的医疗保健。

“我们需要在我们看的方式上更加全面access to telemedicine,”伯曼说。

根据伯曼的说法,技术不会取代面对面的医生的访问;它只会增强医学界可以提供的服务。

“Doctors are still providing medical care, and they still have to know when they need to see a patient versus when they can use telehealth options,” she says.