What is it about?
Telemedicine-based approaches to healthcare service delivery improve access to care. It was recognized that adults with inflammatory arthritis living in remote areas had limited access to patient education. The study explores the feasibility of using telemedicine technologies - interactive videoconferencing - for the delivery of a practitioner-led patient education program focusing on inflammatory arthritis to participants in remote communities.
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Why is it important?
The need for patient education among adults with inflammatory arthritis and other chronic health care conditions will continue to grow. Delivering the patient education via telemedicine offers a feasible and effective solution to this growing demand in remote areas.
Perspectives
As our population ages, the prevalence of chronic diseases is anticipated to increase, as will the demand for accessible, high quality patient education. New innovations in technologies and cloud-based solutions will make it technically possible to meet the demand. Patients, as consumers of the education, will expect that their needs be met and will look to technology to bridge that gap. The challenge that remains is shifting the mind-sets of health care practitioners to modify their current approaches to patient education, and to embrace and incorporate these emerging technologies.
Carol Flewelling
St. Michael's Hospital
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This page is a summary of: Telemedicine delivery of patient education in remote Ontario communities: feasibility of an Advanced Clinician Practitioner in Arthritis Care (ACPAC)-led inflammatory arthritis education program, Open Access Rheumatology Research and Reviews, February 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/oarrr.s122015.
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