{"id":26920,"date":"2021-04-05T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/?p=26920"},"modified":"2021-04-07T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:58:20","slug":"telehealth-technology-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syscreations.ca\/blog\/telehealth-technology-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are the Technology Trends in the Telehealth Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We were having an Easter party at our workplace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was accompanied by 2 of our senior telehealth app developers while having delicious food. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started the random discussion around the latest trends in the telehealth industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though discussion on telehealth is our everyday business, the discussion with experts who technically achieve it is something interesting. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 Game-Changing Telehealth Technology Trends<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Senior Developer 1:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of our new clients want us to add a symptom checker<\/span><\/strong> in the telehealth app. Is it going to be dominant telehealth technology? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me:<\/span> <\/strong>(by the way, you can follow me on <\/span>LinkedIn<\/strong><\/u><\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, a symptom checker is very important when it comes to user experience on the telemedicine app. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a symptom checker, patients can know what type of illness they are having in a matter of seconds.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, if a telehealth solution has a symptom checker, patients can get to know their illness without talking to physicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if they schedule a televisit with physicians after checking their symptoms, the physicians will have very useful data of patients\u2019 symptoms, medical history etc. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the major challenge we – as technical experts – should overcome is accuracy as there are the same symptoms for different illnesses such as flu and COVID-19! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, we have to make sure the symptom checker does not reach the wrong conclusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With sophisticated AI and machine learning-based algorithms, we can easily achieve accuracy in symptom checkers. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yes, it will be the dominant technology of telehealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Babylon by TELUS Health has already been providing a symptom checker in its app. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Developer 2:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remote patient monitoring (RPM)<\/span><\/strong> integrated with telemedicine has a better use case. It actualizes contactless care delivery in a true sense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, you are right. The major limitation of telemedicine is that physicians cannot know the biometric data of patients such as heart rate, blood sugar level etc. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that, the patients should either measure it by themselves or the care providers should measure it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this requires direct contact and it increases the risk – especially when the telehealth program is there in hospitals and long-term care homes.<\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So this way, there is no good use of telehealth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if we integrate RPM with the telemedicine app, the physicians can know the real-time biometric data of patients on their app itself. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only this, but they can know the historic biometric data of patients which enhances the patient outcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here also, there is a technical challenge – device compatibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the IoT devices which measure the biometric data of patients aren\u2019t technically compatible with the telemedicine app, the app either receives wrong data or does not receive any data. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Developer 1:<\/u><\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most memorable project I have worked on is integrating behaviour analysis<\/span><\/strong> in a telemedicine app. This idea is epic for virtual mental therapy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we delivered our first telemedicine app in 2017, none of us had imagined that telemedicine would one day reach here. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behaviour analysis is the best technology for psychiatrists who wish to provide mental health therapy online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because in virtual meetings, it becomes difficult for psychiatrists to identify the psychological disorders patients are having. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algorithms that analyze the behaviour of the patients on the video consultation provide observable behavioural cues and symptoms of patients to psychiatrists. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with this data, psychiatrists can prepare a personalized mental care plan for the patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Developer 2:<\/u> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behaviour analysis reminds me of emotional technology<\/strong><\/span>. Can you guys imagine a telemedicine app working on emotional technology? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n