E-COMMUNICATION: A New Trend in Nursing Therapeutic Management

Communication plays a vital role in the Healthcare Industry. From delivering doctors' prescriptions, patients' responsibility to drug administration to reporting current health status of patiens, it has became a tool to an efficient client care and a more effective delivery of care intra-care and post-care.

"I feel that with improved communication options for patients and families, better care can be provided, and patient or family concerns addressed in a more timely fashion or in real time." shared Dr. Philip A. Philip of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in an interview with the Detroit Free Press.

As smartphones go up the current trends for technology, it has also paved the way for an easier way to report health conditions. You may not have realized, but you can actually do a twitpic or go MMS to report a relative's health condition (discolorations, abnormal growth etc...). We can have superficial skin assessments through video calling, features that SKYPE offers to its users. It is also a useful tool to update or educate the caretakers, relatives or private nurse practitioners about the plan of care for the clients. Technology and the healthcare industry are definitely inseperable. And as the rise of communication technology continues, so as healthcare delivery. More efficient, more immediate, more upclose & personal. 

Being in a 3rd world country, I personally feel home visits, clinic visits, physical assessments, community outreach programs, are more effective, the traditional means, as ways to actually interact with the people, with the clients as it is a tested & proven tool to educate them. As shared by Dr. Matthew Davis, director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health at the University of Michigan, "We need to see electronic messaging as a replacement for a phone call, not as a substitution for a visit." 

Source: http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com
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