Career Opportunities in Telemedicine and Health Informatics

TELEMEDICINE AND HEALTH INFORMATICS Career Opportunities Telemedicine: Healthcare services that use email, smartphones, two-way video, and other telecommunication technologies to deliver remote clinical services. Telemedicine lets doctors provide primary care, remote patient monitoring, medical education, and related services. It can improve access to healthcare, reduce travel time and related stresses for patients, improve service quality, and lower healthcare costs. Telemedicine Technology Technologies Improving Patient Services Patients and health service providers need data plans that can transfer information quickly EMAIL VIDEOCONFERENCING TELECONFERENCING Common Telemedicine Devices Digital Thermometer Sphygmomanometer Digital Audio Stethoscope with integrated electrocardiogram (digital blood pressure monitor) Devices with Compressed Full-motion Video (including proctoscope, ENT scope, nasopharyngoscope, ophthalmoscope) Types of Images Often Used in Telemedicine Ultrasound Digital Radiography Mammography Videoconferencing Practitioner Cart Computed Tomography and Digitized X-Ray Magnetic Resonance Imaging Mymedic Telehealth Monitor Pulse Oximeter Thermometer Lead EKG Health informatics jobs have increased faster than other healthcare jobs Healthcare Job Growth (2007-2011) A36% A 9% Health Informatics Jobs Other Health Jobs Growth by Job Type (2007-2011) Clinical Documentation and Improvement Analysts 4,443 123.6% Medical Coders 3,865 31.14% Health Information Technicians 3,139 31.37% Coding Compliance and Review 1,972 141.8% Medical Records and Coding Department Supervisors/Managers 1,352 46.43% Health Information Managers 1,323 53.5% Telemedicine and health informatics positions will continue to outpace other health care jobs from: 2012-2022 2010-2020 Medical Records and Health Informatics Nurses Information Technicians ll (22%) 41,100 Ml (22.1%) 544,400 Telemedicine Market Growth 237% A18.5% 2007-2012 (expected increase) 2012-2018 Factors Affecting Market Growth Healthcare providers say they do not have adequate health informatics staffs to develop programs. They need more professionals to fill these roles 40% 48% Hospitals plan to increase informatics hiring Pharmaceutical and life 70% Insurance providers plan to increase informatics hiring 39% science companies plan to increase hiring Disparity in Rural Health Care Services Percentage of Americans Living in Rural Areas: Percentage of Physicians Serving Rural Areas: About 19.2% About 11.4% 65% Of primary care health professional shortage areas are rural Life expectancy is nearly two years shorter for people living in rural areas Certain health risks are also more prevalent in rural areas Health Problems More Prevalent in Rural Areas Obesity Smoking Smokeless Tobacco Use 40% Rural 29.6% Rural 6.6% Rural 0000000000 0000000000 c000000000 33% Urban 24.2% Urban 2.9% Urban 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 Substance Abuse 2OYS00 Hospital Admissions by Marijuana Non-Heroin Opiates Alchohol Methamphetamine Substance 49.5% Rural 20.9% Rural 6.3% Rural 10.6% Rural 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 000000000 36.1% Urban 17% Urban 6.1% Urban 4% Urban 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 Percentage of Uninsured People in Rural Areas 25% tttttttttt 20% ttittiiitt 2019 (Projected) 2009 Benefits of Health Information Technology Lower Costs Improved Quality of Improved Enhanced Decreased Adherence to Disease Prescription Healthcare Medical Surveillance Medication Errors Service Guidelines Sources: http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/CTW_burning_glass_publication_052912.pdf http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/medical-records-and-health-information-technicians.htm http://money.cnn.com/pf/best-jobs/2013/snapshots/47.html http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/report-global-telemedicine-market-grow-185-percent-through-2018 http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2012/clinical-informatics-himss-release.jhtml http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2011/05/pfor1-1105.html http://www.cfah.org/hbns/2014/gap-in-life-expectancy-between-rural-and-urban-residents-is-growing http://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutritional-infor- mation-27/obesity-health-news-505/obesity-hits-rural-areas-harder-than-cities-668677.html http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ppt/nchs2012/SS-33_LANCET.pdf http://www.samhsa.gov/data/2k12/TEDS_043/TEDSShortReport043UrbanRuralAdmissions2012.htm http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&d=3&ved=0CEMQFJAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fw ww.ruralhealthweb.org%2Fdownload.cfm%3Fdownloadfile%3D37F1DE3E-3048-651A-FEA203DE7ED16E47%26t ypename%3DdmFile%26fieldname%3Dfilename&ei=Z1jqUumvL6GGyApyoHwBg&usg=AFQjCNH49rAuUELX KqkOws5yEI-j1xaEKg&sig2=RtGPWWzcfPUw-chKj1Qr1Q&bvm=bv.60444564,d.b21 http://lhncbc.wip.nlm.nih.gov/files/archive/pub2002049.pdf TUADELPHI UNIVERSITY onlinemshidegree.adelphi.edu