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Telehealth Application Implementation

Phase 1: Research and Needs Assessment

1. Identify Target Communities:

Conduct studies to review which specific groups of a population should be targeted with the
services of telehealth, for example of low income, rural and disabled.

2. Assess Healthcare Needs:

- Conduct cumulative health needs assessment of the target population with the methods
such as national and regional surveys, focus groups, and interviews. Learn about the main
challenges they experience in the usage of health care facilities.

3. Analyze Existing Solutions:

- Analyze the current state of telehealth solutions to find a knowledge gap and
effectiveness. Get to learn of other case studies such as the Atipan Project in order to identify
models for the success of telehealth in marginalized contexts [3].

Phase 2: Design and Development

4. Define Application Features:

Based on research findings, outline essential features such as:

- Video consultations

- Appointment scheduling
- Prescription management

- Health records access

- Multilingual support

- Accessibility for people with disabilities

5. User-Centered Design:
At this point, the community people should be consulted to understand what they will need
in this application so that they can use it in the best way possible and what content is
culturally acceptable. Most of the time, perform mock user trials with the potential users in
order to enhance features.

6. Technology Infrastructure:

Choose appropriate technologies for the application taking into consideration the stream
capability of the application, storage and security. Perhaps, cloud services can be utilized to
scale easily.

Phase 3: Implementation

7. Develop Partnerships:

- Work with other nearby healthcare facilities, non-governmental, and other organizations,
and technological companies in order to enhance the delivery of the services. Find healthcare
professionals that agree to attend telehealth service.

8. Pilot Testing:

a) Convey an initial test version of the application within a small population area to check
on the operation of the product and to test usability and the presence of any bugs.

9. Training and Support:

– Conduct awareness created to include training of both healthcare providers and


community members on how best to use the application. Field 6: Define the conditions of
providing constant developments in technical assistance.

Phase 4: Evaluation and Scaling

10. Monitor Usage and Outcomes:

– Use analytical tools on use of application, impact on patients and patients’ health. Always
conduct satisfaction surveys at regular intervals to know how the users feel about our site and
what they think needs to be changed.

11. Evaluate Health Impact:


- They should undertake research projects to assess the effectiveness of telehealth services
on health of margined population. Examples include appointment compliance ration, patient
satisfaction index and disease improvement percentages.

12. Scale Up Services:

As seen in the pilot data, improve the application and include more communities into your
sample. There should be introduced other services in this context, for example, mental health
support and chronic diseases management.

Phase 5: Environmental Conservation and Policy Change

13. Secure Funding:

Take grant funding or find an NGO or government program to support heath care for such
groups to be offered to the affected groups.

14. Advocate for Policy Changes:

More It is therefore important to collaboratively lobby for policies that foster telehealth
efforts, for example reimbursement schemes that would make it possible for providers in the
telehealth programs to break even.

15. Continuous Improvement:


- Implement strategies for the integration of feedback from users and resulting changes in
the social context into the ongoing improvement processes of both technology and care.

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