ROJoson’s Telemedicine and Telehealth Activities
What is telemedicine?
Telemedicine is the practice of medicine using technology to deliver care at a distance. A physician in one location uses a telecommunications infrastructure to deliver care to a patient at a distant site.
What is telehealth?
Telehealth refers broadly to electronic and telecommunications technologies and services used to provide care and services at-a-distance.
What’s the difference?
Telehealth is different from telemedicine in that it refers to a broader scope of remote health care services than telemedicine. Telemedicine refers specifically to remote clinical services, while telehealth can refer to remote non-clinical services.
https://www.aafp.org/media-center/kits/telemedicine-and-telehealth.html
I have been doing telemedicine and telehealth circa 1990 or even earlier.
See my memoir at age 70.
https://sites.google.com/site/rojoson70memoir/telemedicine—a-legacy
I was into telemedicine or telehealth activities (see definitions below) as early as 1990 in my Zamboanga telemedicine projects. Because of this, I like to think that I am one of the pioneers in telemedicine in the Philippines.
I use telemedicine mainly for teaching surgeons, physicians, medical students, hospital administrators, and the public. Topics include general surgery, general medicine, hospital administrations, hospital disaster preparedness programs, how to live life, etc.
My telemedicine activities have one central goal: Education for Health Development in the Philippines.
I have used and still use up to now email groups of yahoo then gmail for telemedicine.
I have also used the free websites – Tripod.com (not using it anymore after 2008 – but some of my posts are still in the Net); Google Sites; WordPress.com; YouTube; Slideshare; and Scribd.
In June 16, 2011, I started using Facebook for my telemedicine activities. Aside from teaching the public, I allow selective online medical consultations, in Facebook and in my emails.
Being one of the pioneers of telemedicine or telehealth in the Philippines and with a lot of experiences (see the Net and am still into it up to now – 2018), I like to consider telemedicine or telehealth as a legacy I leave and will leave behind – Telemedicine or Telehealth for Education for Health Development in the Philippines.
See other links:
https://rojosonfacebooknotes.wordpress.com/category/teleconferences/
Up to this writing, June 9, 2019, I am still engaged in telemedicine and telehealth practically on a daily basis.
Telemedicine – patients would text and call me through my cellphones and also would communicate with me through Facebook or email to consult and ask advices; my surgical residents in the Philippine General Hospital and Manila Doctors Hospital would text and call me through my cellphones and also would communicate with me through Facebook messenger or chat to consult and ask advices and my decisions on patient management.
Telehealth – I would post anything on health in my Facebook accounts and WordPress.com in the name of Education for Health Development in the Philippines.
ROJ@19nov25