How effective is Telemedicine in times of COVID19
During recent COVID19 crisis healthcare has become increasingly important. One can’t stop thinking about the number of people who need medical care but still don’t have access to it. However, alarmingly high volume of crowd at hospitals has exposed the lives of medical professionals and hospital staff to high risk of infection.
Telemedicine or Remote Healthcare has provided a sustainable solution to this problem. With easy access to smartphones and high-speed internet, health care and other medical services are now within your thumb’s reach. Therefore, reducing unnecessary human exposure to the virus and promoting de
livery of high-quality care via Telemedicine.
Benefits of Telemedicine
Some of the major and important benefits of Telemedicine are as follows:
- No need to bring patient to hospital hence saves transportation cost.
- No waiting queue for registration and billing counter.
- Complete transparency in financial activities.
- Avoid unnecessary exposure by keeping patients out of hospital.
- Home delivery of medicines is possible as the prescription is readily available.
- Reduce chances of getting a new illness.
- No waiting rooms.
- Direct and Easy access to specialized doctors.
How Telemedicine can help during and post Covid19 Pandemic?
Telemedicine is a medium for patients to connect with doctors effectively and seek medical consultation without visiting hospital or clinic. Patient can stay at home and communicate with Doctor via Mobile App, Website or Phone thereby reducing risk of exposure to Corona virus.
For instance, it is a blessing for elderly people who frequently visit hospitals/ clinics for their routine checkups. Now they can do the same from the comfort of their home.
People in rural areas and those with inadequate health care facilities in their area, can now take advantage of Telemedicine facilities and seek medical consultation with Doctors.
Healthcare facilities can adopt Telemedicine services to treat their patients or have multi-disciplinary team consultations. Healthcare professionals who are asymptomatic can also treat their patients via Telemedicine web portals and mobile apps.
Patients can be safe as they can avoid traveling and get past waiting room. This can restrict the spread of Corona virus to a large extent.
How to use Telemedicine App or Website?
Most of the Telemedicine facilities for patients are quite simple to use. Simply, signup with Telemedicine portal or Mobile App like TalktoMedic , choose your problems/ symptoms, pay consultation fee and confirm appointment with Doctor. At the date and time of consultation, you can connect with Doctor and seek advise and prescription also.
During a Telemedicine call patients can comfortably discuss their private/ personal problems and save themselves from embarrassment and unwanted hesitation.
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Telemedicine platform implementation
Telemedicine has a unique ability to unite the various medical organization into a single unit through a virtual network. This single network can consist of various physical locations, central or remote locations, a government-led or private clinic, rehabilitation center, and all registered patients in every location.
All users can use any device from computers to smartphones to get access to the platform and can participate in audio or video conferencing and exchange any useful information. For doctors, this platform can come handy as all the information about patients like general information, lab test results, CT, ECG, MRT can be readily available in the platform itself.
Today, when everyone is looking for reliable-practices and best-implemented solutions, telemedicine can be one of the treasures to bring the necessary changes that are a demand of today. Countries like the USA, France, UK, Isreal have already started to take steps forward to adopt telemedicine and its high time for the rest of the world to embrace the revolution of telemedicine with open arms.
Conclusion
During COVID19 pandemic and even after that, Telemedicine can prove to be a game changer in healthcare. In other words, its a cost effective, quicker, zero travel and convenient way to seek medical consultation with a Doctor. Large healthcare providers can adopt advanced Telemedicine services with integrated digital monitoring and vital measuring devices, lab test kits, DICOM viewers etc.
Just like offices and schools have opted work from home during COVID19 pandemic. Therefore, Telemedicine should be adopted by hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities for remote treatment or screening of patients.