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Cancer Patients and their Use of Telehealth: Taking Medication Made Easier

The use of telehealth has done a great job of enabling cancer patients to continue taking their medications even after experiencing adverse effects from them.  Cancer patients are subject to various side effects when taking medications to treat cancer.  The most common type of medications that cancer patients are prescribed are alkylating agents, nitrosoureas, antimetabolites, …

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Children with Special Healthcare Needs and their Use of Telehealth Services

Telehealth is a virtual healthcare service that gives children the same healthcare experience without visiting a doctor’s office or hospital and these visits especially benefit children with special healthcare needs.  Telehealth visits benefit children with special healthcare needs in many ways.  Children experience less stress, spend less time away from their homes, and encounter fewer …

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Funding for Senior Centers in Baltimore: Expansion of Telehealth Services

Baltimore has secured $2 million in federal funding and the expansion of telehealth services and senior citizens being provided with internet access looks promising.  Digital infrastructure is a huge topic concerning senior citizens.  During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the condition of a senior citizen’s digital infrastructure was very important – was it sufficient or insufficient?  …

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TotalCare’s Approach to Managing Chronic Diseases

TotalCare helps patients manage their chronic diseases by the use of provider-patient communication using a single telemedicine platform.  Chronic diseases cost Americans billions of dollars every year.  They are also the nation’s reason for its spending of $4.1 trillion in annual healthcare expenses.  Six in ten adults in America have a chronic disease and four …

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TotalCare’s Approach to Helping Busy Moms

Telehealth and telemedicine are very attractive tools for busy moms.  A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that during pre-pandemic times, women were more likely than men to choose telehealth visits.  Before and during the pandemic, many moms’ schedules had been turned upside down especially when one of their children …

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TotalCare: Giving Rural Communities Access to Healthcare

TotalCare is a convenient and accessible healthcare virtual visit platform that is very rewarding for rural communities.  Rural communities deal with a low quality of life when it comes to preventing and managing chronic diseases.  People in rural communities suffer from chronic diseases more than people in urban communities.  In rural communities, 22.6% of the …

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Rural Community Libraries and their Approach to Telemedicine

Americans in rural communities are using libraries as the driving force behind providing access to healthcare to their residents.  Rural libraries are offering more than the knowledge that people gain from books to their communities.  Rural libraries are providing internet access, health literacy classes, and programs such as walking groups to their communities.  According to …

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Telehealth: Use and Improved Patient Outcome

Telehealth is the collaboration of healthcare professionals in two-way communication (1). Telehealth has productive uses in counseling and communication with patients, remote monitoring, and behavioral psychotherapy support (2). Both clinicians and patients have expanded their telehealth use that is not limited to at-home management of chronic illnesses, diet monitoring, medication adherence, or health risk assessment …

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