Telemedicine solutions needed for disaster response
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In an article on HealthcareITNews, Cathy Lester, Health Outcomes Innovation, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, champions for telemedicine solutions in disaster response efforts.
Lester writes: “Some of the biggest challenges to widespreadadoption and use of telemedicine in disaster response are associated with scaleand activation – for example, activating medical practitioners during theresponse-and-recovery effort.
“In the aftermath of the 2017 hurricanes, imagine if the state of Texas could have utilized some kind of emergency virtual health activation platform – a combination of distributed ledger technology, virtual care platform and a self-activation portal. Such a platform would have the potential to deliver the benefits of advanced virtual care in disaster scenarios. It would provide a seamless, standardized interface to promote self-activation of healthcare providers powered by advanced security and allowing for on-demand credential verification and reporting. With such a platform, would we have affected patient outcomes? Could we have supported any Americans impacted by disasters in 2018?” Read more.
