{"id":666,"date":"2021-09-30T18:49:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=666"},"modified":"2025-09-20T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:52:09","slug":"telemedicine-is-the-new-face-of-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2021\/09\/30\/telemedicine-is-the-new-face-of-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"Telemedicine is the New Face of Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have not heard already,\u00a0telemedicine\u00a0is\u00a0fast gaining ground in the healthcare industry. So, what is telemedicine?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An article on\u00a0<\/span>VSee<\/span><\/a>\u00a0defines telemedicine as the practice of caring for patients with the healthcare provider and the patient not being physically present with each other; it is basically\u00a0technology\u00a0in healthcare that enables virtual healthcare\u00a0to be\u00a0dispensed remotely.\u00a0Any\u00a0cost-effective\u00a0tool that provides encompassing access to healthcare\u00a0and\u00a0augments patient engagement\u00a0can be termed as telemedicine.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Telemedicine is a recent phenomenon. Right?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Covid-19 pandemic has made telemedicine more commonplace, as a part of social distancing.\u00a0Telemedicine per se is not new; it debuted in the 1950s, however, it dates\u00a0far\u00a0back to the 19th century. Telemedicine began when hospitals vied to bring healthcare to people living in the backwater areas. When telecommunication infrastructure like telegraph, radio and telephone was built, the inception of telemedicine was created. In 1922, Dr. Hugo\u00a0Gernsback\u00a0predicted that there will come a time when healthcare officers would see their patients on a screen and touch them from long distances with robotic arms.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, physicians and patients can see each other and share information in real-time, from\u00a0telecommunication\u00a0devices\u2019\u00a0screens.\u00a0Apps that monitor heartbeat and give feedback about your health status can be downloaded\u00a0easily.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Telemedicine has the potential to empower patients and physicians \u2013 appointments are no longer a necessity and diagnosis and consultation can be\u00a0conducted\u00a0from anywhere. With this improved accessibility, healthcare is dispensed more easily in hard-to-reach areas and hives of urban areas.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Do\u00a0you know that there are more smartphones in the population than toilets? This means, more people can access basic telemedicine via devices like smartphones and\u00a0computers. Several small countries have fully digitized healthcare systems with doctors using electronic medical records and patients having access to their data.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The global market for telemedicine is growing at a 24% rate annually. The\u00a0<\/span>Adaptive Healthcare Strategy<\/span><\/a>\u00a0certificate offered by Genashtim in collaboration with eCornell will equip you with the skills and tools to overcome the many challenges in telemedicine as it becomes the face of healthcare.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

eCornell courses are approved by\u00a0SkillsFuture\u00a0Singapore for\u00a0SkillsFuture\u00a0Credit as well as by HRD Corp Malaysia under its SBL-Khas Scheme.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have not heard already,\u00a0telemedicine\u00a0is\u00a0fast gaining ground in the healthcare industry. So, what is telemedicine?\u00a0 An article on\u00a0VSee\u00a0defines telemedicine as the practice of caring for patients with the healthcare provider and the patient not being physically present with each other; it is basically\u00a0technology\u00a0in healthcare that enables virtual healthcare\u00a0to be\u00a0dispensed remotely.\u00a0Any\u00a0cost-effective\u00a0tool that provides encompassing access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-september-2021-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}