Assignment: Telemedicine And Medical Tourism
The use of telemedicine applications has accelerated the adoption of medical tourism by patients within the worldwide marketplace. As the population ages and continues to travel and vacation within locations that are not always within major cities and hotel chains, there are instances when a patient requires a medical evaluation. Patients may prefer to have their own private physicians be part of that evaluation process. There are also many patients who choose to have a surgical procedure within a foreign country due to economic factors. Patients are able, in some instances, to have both a vacation and undergo surgery (usually a cosmetic procedure) at a lower cost than the surgery alone would cost them at home.
To prepare for this application, read the attached article.
Also search the Internet for information about the applications of telemedicine in medical tourism.
For this Application, construct at 2-page Word document written in APA style in which you:
• Describe the technical challenges of enabling a patient within a remote location and their physician at home to communicate in real time.
• Describe how having access to a patient's medical records would be of value to a doctor treating a tourist.
• Other than those for real-time communication, describe the IT- and business-related concerns and complexities when patients receive care in foreign countries.
• Describe the privacy and security concerns involved with telemedicine.
• Detail some of the risks that patients are exposed to when they have surgery in foreign countries.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.