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Patients who seek treatment without close attendance by the nurses and doctors within the
hospital environment receive their treatment in an outpatient setting. Such group of patients are
allowed to operate from their homes and not being admitted in the hospital. This method of
treatment is also called ambulatory care. There are about five main hospital-based outpatient
The system of health care caters for the individuals in remote areas with no or minimal
access to healthcare facilities. It also caters for the individuals with low income hence cannot
effectively and efficiently receive health care services from hospitals. Such kind of people are
then served by the community health workers recognized by the ministry of health.
Urgent care systems provide an immediate health care services to patients who requires an
emergent attendance that cannot wait for the booking of the primary care physician. The system
is valid when the patient requires immediate attendance but the level does not qualify for being
These are specific departments within an hospital that attend to special medical attentions
Are also called the Emergency Rooms (ER). These are rooms within hospitals specifically
attending to patients who needs an urgent attention such as those involved in an accident. The
rooms are found within the hospitals though referred to as an outpatient service clinic.
v. Pharmacy
Pharmacy are those rooms in which drugs are bought after the doctor’s prescription. Some
of the pharmacies currently performs the task of reviewing the prescription given by the
doctors. This responsibility differs greatly to their initial responsibility of handing over the
services using the various technological equipment such as computers, phones, aeroplanes,
trains and vehicles among others mostly to less fortunate group of people. The mobile
healthcare service is vital to people who might have not acquired medical attention due to
certain epidemics such as poverty, natural calamities and others (Baig, GholamHosseini and
Connolly, 2015).
Mobile Medical Environment – This is a mobile facility that seeks to attending sick or injured
patients at their places of residence. The facility uses the technological equipment in supplying
Mobile Pharmacy – This is a kind of mobile healthcare facility that contains the hospital
pharmacy and the retail pharmacy thereby facilitating diagnosis of patients with various drugs.
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It supplies various drugs such as those for vaccinations to remote or the affected regions
Mobile Radiology – This is one facility of mHealth that provides immediate screening services
to the affected patients. Some of the available screenings within this system includes the X-
Alternative Medicine
healing and natural therapy. These methods of treatment, though some are not proved
scientifically provides cheap and accessible acquisition of treatments (Micozzi, 2018). The
methods of treatments make the healthcare services quite accessible to those who cannot afford
hospital costs.
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References
Baig, M. M., GholamHosseini, H., & Connolly, M. J. (2015). Mobile healthcare applications:
system design review, critical issues and challenges. Australasian physical &
Williams, M., Taylor, C., Awad, A., Hockings, M., & Ashworth, M. (2018). Nurse-led follow