Paper Info
Title
Health management via telemedicine: Learning from the COVID-19 experience
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 multi-disciplinary 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1093/jamia/ocab145
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
telemedicine, COVID-19, health management
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
1067-5027
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ran Sun111.02
Douglas W. Blayney201.35
T Hernandez-Boussard337664.26