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Telemedicine, Not The Panacea We Thought It Would Be. A Tale Of Caution, Ahmed Elkhapery, Syed Faiz Abbas, Basil George Verghese
Telemedicine, Not The Panacea We Thought It Would Be. A Tale Of Caution, Ahmed Elkhapery, Syed Faiz Abbas, Basil George Verghese
Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery
In the last few decades, the growing use of telemedicine has allowed access to healthcare at reduced costs and increased monitoring of chronic conditions, especially in underserved and rural areas. It is a tool of great value in low-income countries where there is a paucity of specialists. In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine was used to screen patients with COVID-19 like symptoms and send them to test sites directly. This helped minimize unnecessary healthcare staff and patient exposure to the infection and helped decompress ERs. Due to a lack of testing resources, many mildly symptomatic patients were presumed …
Emerging Trends In Healthcare Driven By The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review From Health Informatics Perspective., Venugopal Mudgundi, Bhargav Desai, Farhad Nasar
Emerging Trends In Healthcare Driven By The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review From Health Informatics Perspective., Venugopal Mudgundi, Bhargav Desai, Farhad Nasar
Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery
The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of its kind to hit the world in the modern information age. People working in healthcare across the globe have harnessed technological advances and modern digital tools in innovative new ways. This has brought specific, more recent trends in healthcare delivery to the forefront. In this review, we present a collection of articles that highlight some of the emerging trends in healthcare driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and that have the potential to transform healthcare in the coming decades. We provide a brief commentary on the opportunities and challenges for each trend.