Informatics by Jenelle Edwards https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2 My Padlet en-us 2022-10-02 15:40:46 UTC 2025-05-02 10:36:03 UTC hello@padlet.com edwardsj216 https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2/wish/2380615903 2022-11-11 20:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2/wish/2380615903 edwardsj216 https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2/wish/2380618474 What does telehealth mean?
Telehealth — sometimes called telemedicine — lets your health care provider care for you without an in-person office visit. Telehealth is done primarily online with internet access on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.
There are several options for telehealth care:
  • Talk to your health care provider live over the phone or video chat.
  • Send and receive messages from your health care provider using secure messaging, email, secure messaging, and secure file exchange.
  • Use remote monitoring so your health care provider can check on you at home. For example, you might use a device to gather vital signs to help your health care provider stay informed on your progress.

Reference
TELEHEALTH.HHS.GOV. (2022, June 29). What is telehealth?
 https://telehealth.hhs.gov/patients/understanding-telehealth/
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Reference
Digital Health. (2022, August 22). Gamification and the healthcare industry. https://digitalhealth.folio3.com/blog/what-ways-can-gamification-be-used-in-the-healthcare-industry/#:~:text=Gamification%20is%20primarily%20utilized%20in,making%20their%20experience%20more%20personalized.
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]]> 2022-11-17 01:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2/wish/2387535258 edwardsj216 https://padlet.com/edwardsj216/fim6k8dmmlozcnr2/wish/2387546036 The phrase "alert fatigue" refers to the process by which busy workers (in the medical field, physicians) become desensitized to safety signals and, as a result, disregard or fail to act correctly when such warnings are given. This situation arises due to the overwhelming volume of warnings, which is further exacerbated by the fact that the vast majority of alerts produced by CPOE systems (and other healthcare technologies) are clinically irrelevant, which means that doctors should typically disregard them. The issue is that when this happens, practitioners disregard both the warnings that are inconvenient and clinically worthless as well as the crucial alerts that signal potential catastrophic patient harm. Essentially, the profusion of alarms that are meant to boost safety actually has the counterintuitive effect of increasing the likelihood that patients may be hurt. Despite receiving little attention before the broad adoption of electronic medical records, alert weariness is now acknowledged as a serious adverse effect of the computerization of health care and a risk to patient safety.
Reference
Patient safety Network. (2019, September 7). Alert Fatigue. https://psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/alert-fatigue
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