# data[].attributes.body
https://youtu.be/cpy5ohHEJjE

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Telehealth expanding access to care | Irina Gelman | TEDxFMCC

# data[].attributes.body
The latest cost analysis exhibits that telehealth continues to reduce hospitalizations and readmissions, significantly. Healthcare costs are reduced as a whole, while the overall patient outcomes have improved. There has been a positive correlation associated with telehealth and patient quality of care. 128 patients who had at least one year pre-IAC impact, had a reduction of 34.5%, which was driven primarily by a reduction in hospitalization rates and hospital days, as well as a reduction in professional services needed and outpatient costs (Healthcare Leadership Review, 2017). Telehealth is beneficial to the elderly population, as well as millennials. It removes the expense of having to travel to a hospital, for those elderly patients that live in a rural setting, where the nearest hospital or clinic could be twenty miles away. For millennials, telehealth is appealing due to the aspect that millennials require less intensive medical medical care, however, are enrolled in high deductible health plans. With the cost analysis of telehealth, millennials can pay $40-60 per “visit”, whereas a physical in person visit can be around $150.

# data[].attributes.body
Balestra, M. (2018). Telehealth and legal implications for nurse practitioners. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 14
Cason, J., & Brannon, J. A. (2011). Telehealth regulatory and legal considerations: Frequently asked questions. International Journal of Telerehabilitation.
Dinesen, B., Nonnecke, B., Lindeman, D., Toft, E., Kidholm, K., Jethwani, K., … Nesbitt, T. (2016). Personalized Telehealth in the Future: A Global Research Agenda. Journal of Medical Internet Research, ₁₈(3), e53. doi:10.2196/jmir.5257    eVisit (2017). History of telemedicine. The now and future of healthcare. Retrieved from: https://evisit.com/history-of-telemedicine/
Healthit.gov (2017). What is Telehealth? Retrieved from:https://www.healthit.gov/telehealth
Sewell, J. (2016). Informatics and nursing: opportunities and challenges (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer

Stephens, S. (2014). Telehealth Is Calling. PT In Motion, 6(4), 30-39.

Telehealth reduces cost, hospitalizations. (2017). Healthcare Leadership Review, 36(2), 18.
van Houwelingen, C.T., Moerman, A.H., Ettema, R.G., Kort, H.S., & ten Cate, O. (2016).   Competencies required for nursing telehealth activities: A delphi-study. Nurse Education   Today, 39, 50-62. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2015.12.025.
Wu, B. (2015). Telemedicine: Benefits and advantages. Retrieved from https://www.healthline.com/health/telemedicine-benefits-and-advantages#1.

# data[].attributes.body
*Overcome barriers of access to services caused by distance, unavailability of specialists or impaired mobility

*Offers potential to extend care to remote, rural, underserved and linguistically diverse populations

*Eliminates ambulance discomfort and staff costs, reducing chances for ambulance pressure ulcers as well

*Decrease of secondary conditions that occur because of chronic conditions means indirect cost savings (Stephens, 2014)

# data[].attributes.body
-In the 1940s, in Pennsylvania, radiology images were sent 24 miles between two townships, via telephone

to demonstrate the world’s first example of an electronic medical transfer

-Early 1960s, telehealth/telemedicine appeared in urban communities, touching down in the world of emergency medicine

-1960s and 1970s, Public Health Department, NASA, and U.S. Health & Human Services invested in research in telemedicine

# data[].attributes.body
Telehealth refers to methods that enhance health care, public health, and healthcare delivery overall, by the use of telecommunications technologies.  Telehealth incorporates a wide variety of technologies to deliver medical, health, and education services through a virtual environment.  Telehealth provides numerous benefits, such as enhanced patient care, reduced travel time, increased productivity, and enlarged educational opportunities

# data[].attributes.body
As more and more consumers continue to utilize telehealth services, patient care will demand and require an effective process and management of information. Nursing informatics, combined with information technology, as well as the knowledge of nursing and clinical outcomes, will improve the patient care process, through examination of data trends and overall, delivery. Patients can use a variety of tools at their home, including recording their vital signs, such as blood pressure, heart rate, oxygen saturation levels, and glucose levels and view that data on a mobile application. Furthermore, as a means for medical compliance, capsules with sensors should be considered a possibility and an app where it records the ingestion event should be available at all times. On the other end, nurses and other health care professionals should receive the same notification and monitor compliancy. Nursing informatics can aid in the process of designing and maintaining the necessary system required for treating patients remotely.