Continua Health Alliance has been chosen by the Nation of Denmark to build its new national Action Plan for Telemedicine to establish reference architectures and national standards for health IT in Denmark, leading to the secure collection, storage, transmission and management of patient data from their homes to doctors’ offices.
Continua Health Alliance develops industry standards for interoperability.
The Action Plan for Telemedicine will allow doctors and patients to share medical documents and images, manage health records, medical appointments and other related information. This reference architecture will be built on Continua's design guidelines.
"Continua is honored to support Denmark's groundbreaking national telemedicine initiative, using our design guidelines to make the collection and sharing of personal health data convenient and secure for consumers and health care providers," said Clint McClellan, Continua board president and chairman, and senior director of strategic marketing at Qualcomm Life. "We applaud the Danish government for its pioneering vision of healthcare delivery and for recognizing the importance of creating an interoperable ecosystem for the health apps, medical devices and technology platforms upon which these telemedicine programs will be built."
Telemedicine is being used in many countries, including the U.S., to do everything from monitoring patients remotely to allowing surgeons to check up on patients once they’re discharged to help people living in rural areas get access to doctors and specialists.
It’s also recently been deployed in Asia.
Telemedicine will change how medicine is practiced, experts predict. The provision of healthcare services and information, using telecommunication methods to reach people remotely, may very well change the way a large part of the world receives medical care, according to a recent by healthcare sector experts GlobalData.
There are the naysayers, however, who fear that telemedicine won’t be a respected aspect of healthcare until it is peer-reviewed academically. “Telehealth is a moving target, and you can only take a snapshot of it at a particular point in time,” wrote Dick Vinegar at The Guardian.
Edited by
Braden Becker
