Application of telemedicine and eHealth technology for clinical services in response to COVID‑19 pandemic
| Autor: | Bokolo, Anthony Jnr. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Telemedicine
020205 medical informatics Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Computer science Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) education Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering 02 engineering and technology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 03 medical and health sciences Clinical services 0302 clinical medicine Health care Pandemic Coronavirus 2019 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering medicine eHealth 030212 general & internal medicine Clinical care Original Paper business.industry COVID-19 eHealth technology medicine.disease Information and Communications Technology Medical emergency business Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Health and Technology |
| Popis: | Telemedicine and eHealth refer to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) embedded in software programs with highspeed telecommunications systems for delivery, management, and monitoring of healthcare services. Application of telemedicine have become timely while providing great potentials to protect both medical practitioners and patients, as well as limit social mobility of patients contributing to reduce the spread of the virus. This study employs data from the existing literature to describe the application of telemedicine and eHealth as a proactive measure to improve clinical care. Findings from this study present the significance of telemedicine and current applications adopted during the pandemic. More importantly, the findings present practical application of telemedicine and eHealth for clinical services. Also, polices initiated across the world to promote management of COVID-19 are discussed. Respectively, this study suggests that telemedicine and eHealth can be adopted in times of health emergency, as a convenient, safe, scalable, effective, and green method of providing clinical care. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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