TELEHEALTH PROGRAM

The digital era have great influence on the health field, today the growth of telehealth, or telemedicine, continues to expand across the country.

TeleHealth is a unique video conferencing networkconsultations to medical education to staff training, teleHealth provides fulfill a variety of health care, education and business needs.

Today, the comunication is no longer difficult with the technology, especially in the remote area. However, it might be most useful to those residents where it will be most problematic for this technology to reach a– the small rural, distant community.

Access to traditional health service can be limited in these communities because of the cost and difficulty of travel. Yet these same communities also have, potentially, the most difficulty with telecommunication infrastructure.

This is especially true if telehealth technology must be supported with more bandwidth than is currently available in the community. The other problem in public is some of the telehealth equipment has not been easy to use.

It has taken special operating skills, which need to be learned, and these skills continue to change as new hardware and software are introduced. Sufficient training has not been provided before the telehealth application was introduced.

The equipment has not been reliable. An equipment breakdown or a computer glitch occurs and easy and timely service repair is not available. The telecommunications link is slow or unreliable resulting in the view that it is a chore to establish and maintain a current communication link to the consultation service.

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Communication

“If we could solve the problems inherent in communications, we could indeed solve the most of the problems not only of the organization but the world“

I believe this is absolutelly true, succesfully of management functions of planning,organizing, staffing, directing and controlling as well decissions making by managers, depends on efective communication.

Communication is very essential, when the manager communicate, four things may be accomplished:

1. Information is transmitted

2. Someone is motivated

3. Something is controlled

4. Emotional feelings are expressed

Manager can affect motivation by informing others about rewards based on performance, by providing information that build commitment to HSO/HSs and their objectives and by helping employee understand and full fill their personal need.

Communication can serve the purpose of motivating someone to work harder or perform more efficiently, when employees are praised for their efforts, employees will continue to put forth effort, Consistent and positive communication can affect the morale, Motivation and performance affect level of the work place in general.

A good communication is hallmark to overcome these issues and to keep a healthy work environment. The essence of leaderhip is ability to influence others, that’s why comunication become more important for leader/manager as a tools to distribute fairly and clearly all tasks and authorities among employee also appraise all the accomplishments and give good rewards.

Leadership

Leadership is very important to the overall success of organization. The leadership must be effective within the organization and with external stakeholders. The five components of emotional intelligence are very applicable and important to the leader. These include self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skill.

The essence of leadership is the ability to influence others. To have influence, however, one must have power. Power is the potential to exert influence, the obstacles will need to be overcome with the use of influence and persuasion which will hopefully lead to cooperation. This cooperative relationship will pave the way strengthening organization financial and political situation.

Manager Function

Management is defined as the process, composed of interrelated social and technical functions and activities, occurring in a formal organizational setting for the purpose of accomplishing predetermined objectives through the use of human and other resources.
One of the functions of a manager in this discussion is the “directing function”. This is categorized as a social-behavioral function in that it involves effective leading, motivating and communicating skills.

A manager must be able to lead those s/he is directing to accomplish the objectives of the group. People follow those in whom they respect, trust and by whom they are inspired/motivated. So it follows that a manager will not be effective in leading people to do the work if they cannot inspire trust and motivate effectively. And all of this is contingent on effective communication skills…both internally with those a manager must direct and externally with other department and high level management.
April 23rd, 2007