Covid-19: an urge for telemedicine

Author: 
Dr. Vandana Singh, Dr. Namita Arya and Dr. Subhash Singh

The global feast coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been declared as a huge emergency outbreak. As the COVID-19 is unceasingly spreading, its severity towards mortalities is going to cover the entire world. Our courageous scientists, researchers, doctors, and frontline workers are actively contributing their countless efforts towards treatments, virus diagnosis and vaccine developments. While biomedical efforts and treatments are being tried to fight with COVID-19, the technology and tech applications have also their own role to hold this emergency into an optimum level. Although various technology systems are handling this crisis, this article is focused on telemedicine and telehealth. Tele-medicine and tele-health systems are one of existing technology which can play a prominent role during this pandemic. This article is a small input to develop awareness towards telemedicine and telehealth specially in COVID-19 phase. Telemedicine and telehealth are almost same health care services in terms of online or remote health care. Telemedicine work for clinical services whereas telehealth work for non-clinical services. In this article the word “telemedicine” has been taken as general terminology for both services as “Telemedicine as well as Telehealth.” The article reviews on benefits of telemedicine, resources, knowledge, survey, mid effect on crisis and opinion towards awareness during the pandemic phase.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2020.23168.4586
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