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- Telemedicine and eHealth utilize advanced communication technology to enhance healthcare delivery, management, and monitoring, particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The study analyzes existing literature to highlight how telemedicine improves clinical care while ensuring safety for both patients and healthcare providers, thereby reducing viral transmission.
- It discusses global policies supporting telemedicine use during health emergencies, asserting its effectiveness as a convenient and environmentally friendly option for providing clinical services.
Article Abstract
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.
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