The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine into a new light. As medical professionals need to stay healthy and disease-free, they need for remote technologies. Both the CDC and WHO are advocating for telemedicine to monitor patients and reduce risks of them spreading the virus by traveling to hospitals and doctor’s chamber.

• The COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of patients who have contracted the virus and patients who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.
• Telemedicine is bridging the gap between people, physicians and health systems, enabling everyone, especially symptomatic patients, to stay at home and communicate with physicians through virtual channels, helping to reduce the spread of the virus to mass populations and the medical staff on the frontlines
• Telemedicine is making a very positive contribution to healthcare during the pandemic, and is being used in a variety of ways.

How telemedicine is being used in the context of COVID-19

• During this global pandemic, telemedicine is emerging as an effective and sustainable solution for precaution, prevention and treatment to stem the spread of COVID-19.
• Critically, hospitals and physicians are quickly adopting telemedicine to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19,
• In addition, the CDC and WHO are urging the public and medical staff to use telemedicine solutions for non-urgent communication in an effort to reduce the pressures facing emergency rooms and clinics,
• Also by deploying telemedicine solutions and programs, people who are suffering from other medical ailments during this time can receive care from home, without entering medical facilities, minimizing their risk of contracting the virus.
• Telemedicine is being used extensively in the “forward triage” of patients long before they arrive in the primary care clinics, minimizing risk to healthcare workers.