Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care
An evidence-based plan is necessary to ensure the safety of the patient and maximize on better outcomes in the Vila Health Remote Collaboration on Evidence-Based Care. Remote collaboration may be a daunting task for the Villa healthcare center, but it has to remain true to its patients by ensuring that every patient gets quality healthcare. A better evidence-based plan will require the healthcare center to adopt new technology to facilitate better communication with the patient (Gougeon, Johnson & Morse, 2017). One of the remote collaboration tools that Villa healthcare center will have to incorporate is Skype. Skype will help the healthcare professionals of the hospital to connect with the patient through a video call. Skype enhances clear video calls, and the physicians are able to get better insights on what is ailing the patient. Skype is also effective since it can even be connected to mobile phones. When the physician connects with the patient, through a video call, they can educate the patient, recommend medication, and monitor the progress of the patient.
An evidence-based plan model is crucial when designing a care plan for a healthcare organization. An evidence-based plan has helped me in determining that healthcare organizations can take advantage of the technology revolution that is being witnessed in every corner of the world to improve service delivery (Dang & Dearholt, 2017). In the modern world, a large population can afford mobile phones, so I was able to suggest a plan that will facilitate the use of mobile phones. Another way the model helped me was that the healthcare center would be able to collect data about the patient without the need for face-to-face communication or physical presence. Once the physicians have identified what the patient is suffering from, they will be able to provide education on how to control the disease. In addition, the physician will be able to evaluate the patient’s results over the new technology.
When communicating through a video call, the healthcare professional is able to identify the physical signs and symptoms of the illness, and this is one evidence that the proposed care plan will be effective (Morley & Cashell, 2017). The physician is able to identify issues like skin rashes and body weakness. In addition, the patient may identify body parts that they feel are being affected by the illness. After the patient has received medication, the physician is able to identify any improvements through the use of a video call. For instance, the physician is able to ascertain improvement in body fitness.
Remote collaboration in healthcare has various benefits. One of the benefits is that it enhances the physician to patient ratio. Remote collaboration ensures that healthcare organizations like Villa healthcare centers are not flooded with ill people seeking care. Villa healthcare center might be having a shortage of physicians, and remote collaboration would ensure that there are only enough patients who can be attended by the available physicians, and this would improve the quality of healthcare. Morley & Cashell (2017), hints that remote collaboration also enhances frequent observations. Physicians are able to collect real-time information about the patient, and they are able to keep tracking progress through a monitoring system. In addition, remote collaboration enhances effective collaboration between the physician and the patient. Effective communication boosts real-time service delivery.
One of the challenges that Villa healthcare might face in the efforts to implement remote collaboration is resistance from the medical staff. Not all staff will embrace remote collaboration strategy, and this challenge can be addressed by communicating the benefits of the new plan to the staff, and offering relevant training to staff make them familiar with the new technology (Abdellatif et al. 2019). Another challenge may be that the collaboration team might not be sufficient. Villa healthcare center will have to train other staff so as to ensure that the available ones are not overworked.
References
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Morley, L., & Cashell, A. (2017). Collaboration in health care. Journal of medical imaging and radiation sciences, 48(2), 207-216.
Abdellatif, A. A., Mohamed, A., Chiasserini, C. F., Tlili, M., & Erbad, A. (2019). Edge computing for smart health: Context-aware approaches, opportunities, and challenges. IEEE Network, 33(3), 196-203.