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Telemedicine is a valuable technology in linking clinicians with patients to ensure they make long-term lifestyle changes. It has significant benefits for medical office staff. This many times eliminates the burden of patient check-in and concentrates on higher-value tasks. With online visit capability, clinicians may care for their patients while still potentially assisting other affected practices. This also reduces distance limitations by exchanging information about a diagnosis, care, and disease prevention between the doctor and the patient through electronic means. The most extensive telemedicine application can get health coverage closer to people who live in rural areas where quality treatment is otherwise impossible to access. In recent years, this technology has been shown to increase the quality of healthcare facilities by allowing the exchange of information across many distant areas. It expands access to underserved areas, making it easier for them to schedule and hold appointments. People with reduced mobility get doctors' opinions and prescriptions which they need more quickly. Medicine and testing and procedures they have to manage at their place. Telemedicine minimises the doctors' & patient travel around the globe and changes each sick person's life, ensuring that each sick person receives the appropriate health treatment.

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What is the difference between an online and an offline conference?

An offline event is as much about meeting people and being inspired by other visitors than it is by the speakers. An online event is more about learning. So the content needs to be good, but it's almost more a training than an actual conference. Online events do have a place in the mix, it's just a different place.

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I make most of my money from events. I'm both an organiser of conferences and a professional speaker. So the Covid-19 crisis hits me hard. Many conferences are moving online and some people are saying they will never move back. I disagree.

The move online

I've never been a big fan of webinars and online conferences. I'm not saying they have no place, I'm just saying it a different place. An online event is all about learning and a bit inspiration from the speakers. An offline event is as much about meeting people and being inspired by other visitors than it is by the speakers.

An online event is more about learning. So the content needs to be good, but it's almost more a training than an actual conference.

Online events do have a place in the mix, it's just a different place.

Why offline will remain

First of all: it's about meeting people. Academic research on academic research has shown a lot of academic papers have been written by people who met at conferences. The thing about an online conference is you will meet the speaker, you might see someone in the chat, but you don't meet. And you both go away straight after.

Will this ever change? Is there a new normal coming? I don't expect there is and the reason is chemical. Imagine you have a deal with someone (in the pre corona era) and you both signed a contract, you extended your hand and the person says: I don't shake hands. You have my signature, but I will not shake your hand. Would you trust that person? Probably not right? The reason for this is actually chemical. Shaking hands releases a very little amount of Oxytocin in our brain, the trust chemical. It helps us trust the other person and makes it harder to brake the trust too, as both parties get the chemical release. That's why we are so inherently connected as humans. That's why we want to meet. That is why I don't believe project kick off meetings will be moved online either. We were build to meet as human beings.

That doesn't mean we will continue to do everything offline like we did, but we will continue to do offline conferences.

New experiments

The cool thing about online events is that we are able to experiment with new stuff. Like yesterday when Hung Lee did a 24 hour online event called Brainfood Marathon. I actually think the name is wrong, as a marathon is a few hours, this was an ultra sports event. The cool thing was it was one event, that span all continents and time zones. There was a moment for all. Australia, India, Europe and America could all join when they wanted to. And not in separate events, but one major event. At the high moment it actually broke the system with way over 2000 people watching at the same time. People could switch between rooms and presentation if one was boring.

Now there is lots to be learned. One thing we need to learn in all honestly is how to make money from online events. We need a new business model.

Another cool experiment I'm doing myself soon is focus on a part of the world I would never be able to focus on myself. Because it's online, I can now have events with a regional focus without having to have local presence. Yes, we need to work out some of the kinks, but it's worth a try.

Conclusion

Online events have their place, but we're all still looking which place that is.

Offline events will return after the crisis is over. Humans are meant to meet.

Online events do offer unique new opportunities that we are just finding out about. Right now it's mostly about experimenting and throwing spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.
Bas van de Haterd is a professional snoop in the world of recruitment and HR technology. He's tested over 25 different forms of new, modern assessment tooling and is willing to test any that will let him. He's also been researching the Digital candidate experience in the Netherlands for over 12 years.

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I make most of my money from events. I'm both an organiser of conferences and a professional speaker.

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Some argue that there are six different teleconference types: voice communication, audio graphic, computer, video, business television (BTV), and distance education. Still, for the most part, and for the sake of simplicity, these can be condensed down to the essentials: audio conferencing and video conferencing.

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Types of teleconferences and server. Participation in online and offline teleconferences

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A teleconference is a useful way to communicate with people remotely using a conferencing platform. Teleconferences can be helpful for hosting online meetings, town hall meetings, all-hands, team building, and other virtual gatherings.

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What is Video Conferencing? An Introduction

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The purpose of conducting and participating in the teleconference.

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The purpose of conducting and participating in the teleconference.

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A teleconference is an easy and affordable way to conduct meetings between people unable to meet face-to-face. It can be used to educate or train, collaborate and network. The basic teleconference requires a phone and a phone bridge, which is a conference line that all participants call into.

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Tele-education has been used for many years to deliver continuing education programmes to rural health-care professionals. The main modes are audio, video and computer. Audio technologies involve the transmission of the spoken word (voice) between learners and instructors, either synchronously or asynchronously.

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A mobile telemedicine complex or telemedicine suitcase is a modern high–tech tool for remote diagnosis of patients' health status and conducting telemedicine consultations in the "doctor-doctor" format.

The functionality of the mobile telemedicine complex allows not only to transmit a video image during a telemedicine consultation, but also to collect, process and transmit medical data from connected devices to a remote consultant.

Thanks to the simultaneous transmission of video images and biometric indicators, the doctor receives more information for a more accurate diagnosis.

The basic equipment of the telemedicine complex includes:

·       mobile automated protected workplace of a doctor;

·       videoconferencing system;

·       medical equipment;

·       software;

·       protected case.

The medical equipment included in the complex includes the following devices:

·       electrocardiograph;

·       blood glucose meter;

·       urine analyzer;

·       pulse oximeter;

·       tonometer;

·       eye pressure meter;

·       biochemical analyzer;

·       hematological analyzer;

·       ultrasound machine;

·       fluorograph.

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When did telemedicine start? From house calls to urgent care clinics, on-demand healthcare has always been a hot commodity. After all, nobody schedules strep throat or a twisted ankle ahead of time. The modern patient expects 24/7 access to their doctor, and physicians today are able to use telemedicine to monetize remote assistance. Technologies like Facetime and Skype seem brand new, but actually, telemedicine has been around much longer than most people think-from the first half of the 20th century.

See our visual guide to the history of telemedicine

Early Fantasies in Telemedicine History

In the early 1900s, radio revolutionized communication. Inspired by radio's sudden prominence in every field from entertainment to national defense, it wasn't long before innovators started imagining how doctors could attend to patients over the radio. A Radio News Magazine from 1924 features an illustration of a doctor attending to a patient via video call, under the headline "The Radio Doctor-Maybe!" At that point, this was only an editor's vision of the future technology, but 90 years later these dreams would be realized.
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Technology at Work

So, when did telehealth really start? For some context, in 1940s Pennsylvania, radiology images were sent 24 miles between two townships via telephone line in the world's first example of an electronic medical record transfer. A Canadian doctor built upon this technology in the 1950s, constructing a teleradiology system that was used in and around Montreal. As these practices became more widespread, so did motion pictures, and with the advent of modern film technology came serious plans for video medicine. The first people to use video communication for medical purposes were clinicians at the University of Nebraska. In 1959, the university established a two-way television setup to transmit information to medical students across campus, and five years later linked with a state hospital to perform video consultations.

Today, telehealth technology serves many rural communities without local physician access, and this was the basis behind the University of Nebraska's research. In the early 1960s, telemedicine appeared in urban communities as well, touching down in the world of emergency medicine. The University of Miami School of Medicine partnered with the local fire department in 1967 to transmit electrocardiographic rhythms over radio to Jackson Memorial Hospital in rescue situations. Remote medicine had officially hit the streets.

The Evolution of Telemedicine

Telemedicine became popular in rural areas, where populations with limited healthcare access could now reach specialists from afar. In the 1960's and 70's, the Public Health Department, NASA, the Department of Defense and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department all invested time and money for research in telemedicine.

One of the most successful of these government projects was the partnership between the Indian Health Services and NASA. The project was called Space Technology Applied to Rural Papago Advanced Health Care (STARPAHC), and provided both Native Americans on the Papago Reservation in Arizona and astronauts in orbit with access to medical care. Microwave technology transmitted X-ray photographs, electrocardiographs and other medical information to and from the Public Health Service hospital.

Innovative projects like STARPAHC spurred research in the field of medical engineering, leading to quick growth for telemedicine. Over the following decades, research in the field became popular in universities, medical centers and research companies, with more creative, ambitious projects following STARPAHC's lead.
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Now and Later

The telehealth devices in use today resemble earlier telemedicine equipment, but modern health tech is smaller in size and greater in scope of features. Wearables like fitness wristbands and heart rate monitors are an early example of mobile health tools that track patients' vital data in real time. Smart glasses and smart watches are already popular amongst physicians, and will soon be used to relieve doctors of tedious paperwork. Stanford medical students Pelu Tran and Ian Shakil co-founded Augmedix, a digital health startup that uses Google Glass to automatically transcribe medical records during a patient exam. Concepts like this, which may seem fantastical to physicians now, will someday be commonplace - just like how modern telemedicine seemed an outlandish idea in 1924.

Luckily for the telemedicine industry, there's still a lot of unexplored territory. Both private and government-owned research firms invest heavily in telemedicine, so the technology develops almost faster than physicians can keep up. What will telemedicine look like in 2020? We can only imagine. Request a demo for further insight.

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History of Telemedicine & Telehealth: When Did It Start - eVisit

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Telemedicine and telehealth have been around much longer than most people think. Learn about the full history of both these services here at eVisit.

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The development of telemedicine in the world

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The development of telemedicine in the world

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Is Telemedicine The Future Of Health Care?

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Advanced technologies with quality network services enable individuals to improve healthcare delivery and make it available to more and more people. Telemedicine is a more beneficial technology that can make it easier for people to get preventive treatment and help their long-term health. It is particularly true for those who face financial or regional causes to receiving quality treatment. Telehealth has the potential to make health care more effective, organised, and available. The research on this area is still in its early stages, but it is expanding.