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Health management via telemedicine: Learning from the COVID-19 experience
- Source :
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021.
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Abstract
- At the onset of the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, telemedicine was rapidly implemented to protect patients and healthcare providers from infection. It is unlikely that care delivery will fully return to the pre-COVID form. Telemedicine offers many opportunities to improve care efficiency, accessibility, and patient outcomes, but many challenges exist related to technology interoperability, the digital divide, and usability. We propose that telemedicine evolve to support continuity of care throughout the patient journey, including multidisciplinary care teams and the seamless integration of data into the clinical workflow to support a learning healthcare system. Importantly, evidence is needed to support this paradigm shift in care delivery to ensure the quality and efficacy of care delivered via telemedicine. Here, we highlight gaps and opportunities that need to be addressed by the biomedical informatics community to move forward with safe and effective healthcare delivery via telemedicine.
- Subjects :
- Telemedicine
AcademicSubjects/SCI01060
Health management system
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Interoperability
COVID-19
Health Informatics
Usability
medicine.disease
Health informatics
Workflow
Multidisciplinary approach
Perspective
health management
medicine
Humans
telemedicine
Medical emergency
AcademicSubjects/SCI01530
business
Digital divide
Delivery of Health Care
Pandemics
AcademicSubjects/MED00580
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1527974X
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....83841c982c4bede199e95187016b8682