In this assessment, you will follow two parts: 1. Twitter Review: Follow three public health-related Twitter accounts and summarise what you have learned from following these feeds for 5 weeks (from...

Assessment 1: Report – Summarising Public Health Informatics
TWITTER REVIEW
Part One (1500 words)
Telemedicine Journal is a growing venture in the Australian context. The application of the informatics and network solutions based on information technology is thoroughly extensive in terms of improving the healthcare segment (Armfield et al, 2018). For example, the application of social media platforms can be of great help to reach out to public communities. When Twitter handle of telemedicine was observed, the focus of the handle was over education about the alleviation of the healthcare norms in the Australian context (Lauran et al, 2017). The approach of the handle was to ensure that the public viewing is directed towards the new rules and guidelines which are necessary to implement in the day to day activities. While following Telemedicine Twitter handle I observed that they focused on the value of remote patient monitoring before and during the times of Covid-19. They conducted a webinar on remote patient monitoring and generated awareness among followers. Due to Covid-19 out
eak telemedicine has gained more usage which has created a positive impact as clinicians have adopted it as a new normal. Many patients and clinicians nowadays prefer virtual consultation for those ailments that can be looked over digital medium like video conferencing and emails etc. Services like telepharmacy are anticipated to have a pivotal role in augmenting access of service seekers to pharmaceutical care and reducing dispensing delusion in community pharmacies. Remote patient monitoring is an essential tool for providing facilitation to patients with confirmed or symptomatic conditions of corona-virus. Considering similar pattern in symptom presentation between Polymerase Chain reaction test results, access to COVID-related clinical care should not be based on Polymerase chain reaction test statuses. Remote patient monitoring has promising guidelines in proper management of suspected COVID-19 patients. Additionally, remote patient monitoring gives rise to avenues for continuous clinical data ingestion from which future predictive patterns can be created. Webinar conducted by telemedicine journal was interactive and informative. Knowledge shared during the webinar was backed by data, graphical figures and examples. Traditionally, telemedicine services have been accepted to provide access to care in rural areas within North America, ANZ and to some care seekers in the Eastern Europe. The purposes of these experiences were to ensure sufficient health care services to patients, which helps in saving time & resources and improve satisfaction levels in patients. In western Africa, a telemedicine set up was established to improve the pharmacists' role in pediatric oncology and improve medication safety by educating patients about pulmonary diseases, specifically asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
The productivity of telepharmacy services was considered by examining the rate of dispensing e
ors and by documenting number and nature of pharmacist interventions, or by demonstrating the saving of time and staff for more quality-enhancing initiatives. Https:
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/tmj.2020.0283
As observed from the above, it can be infe
ed that In effective knowledge distribution, patient education, and practice marketing, social media can serve as a powerful tool for providers. To make their practice more efficient, well-rounded, and cost-effective endeavor, providers need to capitalize on the beneficial aspects of social media. Telemedicine is an ideal mix of the convenience of social media and the prestige of time-consuming healthcare systems. Telehealth is the medical practice of today, and doctors who do not have it are now behind it. Providers can interact almost everywhere with patients and other medical doctors and improve the standard of care in turn.
During week one of the following Digital health resulted in some basic discoveries and understanding the pattern of how the impacts of telemedicine can be maximized. What makes this information structuring around the social media platforms unique is the accessibility, approach to the common users as well as the best use of the digital platform in the form of social media (Basavaraj, and Chand, 2017). Twitter handles like digital health spread public awareness by publishing their monthly newsletter which provides updates to their subscribers on the recent activities and opportunities. They have collaboration with Australian universities to deliver courses to up skill medicine students and transform health strategy in the digital world. It can be observed that they are offering short graduate courses and are more oriented towards online education and certification.
Healthcare service providers like Mental Health Australia keep their updates posted over their twitter account; the various posts cover different dimensions related to mental healthcare (Oh at el, 2017). They are focusing on giving tips and spreading awareness to improve mental health amongst Australians. It can be seen from there tweets that they have been quite innovative on Twitter and actively sharing information during mental health month. There prime focus is providing support to...