Abstract
The use of modern technologies to meet individual and population health requirements during the pandemic is analyzed and discussed, including how these advances minimized healthcare delivery challenges and aided the public health response to the pandemic. To address healthcare and population requirements, the pandemic's unprecedented challenges call for new and cutting-edge tools, including telemedicine and digital public health. Telemedicine enables medical professionals to treat patients from a distance and allows patients to get care from their homes. Telemedicine enabled medical staff to avoid needless contact with COVID-19 patients, reducing the spread of diseases within healthcare facilities. Healthcare professionals were able to treat patients remotely because of telemedicine. The efficacy of telemedicine use in the healthcare community was put to the test by the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic assisted in developing policies for patient and professional safety and testing the effectiveness of the healthcare community's prior use of telemedicine.
TopThe Coronavirus 2019 Pandemic
Healthcare providers and governments were forced to accept and make quick changes to provide virtual patient care as a result of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The United States' CDC developed a “Framework for Healthcare Systems Providing Non-COVID19 Clinical Care” to help healthcare professionals decide when in-person acute care is necessary in order to lessen the effects of an unprecedented pandemic. Similar to this, guidelines for providing virtual care during pandemics were developed by the healthcare accreditation bodies of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (U.K.) (Anthony Jnr, 2020). Many nations, including India, China, and the Arab world, have invested heavily in changing how healthcare is delivered while promoting virtual care using both old and new technologies. The benefits of technology and innovations make it clear that providers will keep utilising cutting-edge technologies and virtual care after the pandemic. Additionally, according to numerous studies, patient feedback following consultations via Telehealth has generally exceeded expectations in many regions of the world. Telehealth can undoubtedly improve healthcare delivery in the future, but in order to benefit patients worldwide, it is crucial to encourage low-income nations to adopt cutting-edge technology by offering newer, more affordable options.
Key Terms in this Chapter
5G: 5th generation wireless communication.
ICU: Intensive care unit.
EHR: Electronic health records.
SNOMED: Stands for systemized nomenclature of medicine.
IoT: Internet of things.
HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.