Introduction of Digital HealthCare:
Mr. Karim of Sonatundi village of Mawa district no longer needed to come to Dhaka city. He had asthma for many years. It is very difficult when winter comes. Stay healthy with doctor’s treatment at Thana Health Complex and do all the work. Chest pain is associated with shortness of breath for some time. On the advice of a local physician, he goes home to a brother-in-law for a specialist doctor’s consultation in Dhaka four 400 km from Sonatundi village. How to go to the doctor in a different environment, and when to make an appointment, these issues become big problems for Mr.Karim. When he reaches the Doctor’s Chamber, an experienced doctor knew the details of the disease after a physical examination, prescribed some medicine in the prescription, and Lab investigations, and requested him to show the Lab reports after 7 days. It has become very compressed Mr.Karim, at the same time traveling to unfamiliar cities has become a major concern.
People like Mr. Karim are being deprived of specialist medical services from country-renowned hospitals in their own environment.
So it is the In COVID situation to start Digital HealthCare for providing modern treatment for that village or remote people like Mr.Karim.
What is Digital Healthcare :
It is a new era of medical care and the concept of a modern health management system by which we can deliver specialized treatment to remote patients. The telecommunications system has improved a lot, experienced physicians and computer experts in utilizing this telecommunication system this modern system can be introduced.
Also can say it refers to the use of information and communications technologies in medicine and other health professions to manage illnesses and health risks and to promote wellness. The broad scope of the healthcare system refers to as combined solutions of mobile health, eHealth, Hospital MIS, Telehealth, etc.
Advances in telecommunication and online service solutions help to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare services, enabling the provision of suitable medical diagnosis and treatment consultations.
Why is Digital Healthcare is important?
Why is Digital Literacy So Important to Health? The World Health Organization defines digital health literacy as the ability to seek, find, understand, and appraise health information from electronic sources and apply the knowledge gained to addressing or solving a health problem.
The following steps can be taken to launch a digital healthcare system.
Hospitals will be covered under various web-based Digital Health Care Software, and information will be stored in the database high-capacity central server and central database or cloud Server.
The national identity card number or Mobile number is a unique number so it can be considered as a health card of the Digital Health Care system. If the current healthcare sector in Bangladesh is digitalized, the health card can receive advanced treatment from any government health complex through the computerized hospital management system.
What are the benefits of digital health care?
1. Bu using the Digital Health Care System, patients can get services from any government health complex with the help of that card.
2. In the Digital Health Care system reports of laboratories and radiology stored on the central server can be viewed by specialist doctors of any government health center at any time.
3. The specialist doctors of the hospital can provide services in the Upazila Health Complex through the Digital Health Care system. This system also is good for old patients.
4. If the government wishes, it can get information about the actual number of patients in a hospital and it is possible to get the income and expenditure account of the hospital.
5. Accurate information about the skills and scope of work of physicians will be available Proper treatment of patients and reduction of mortality is possible.
6. By using a Digital Health Care system Government research work can be made more dynamic
7. By using the Digital Health Care System Medical expenses of common people will be reduced a lot, from which the government can benefit.
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