The article is devoted to analyzing the efficiency of telehealth in preventing and controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers designed the model to estimate the percentage of the successful integration of telehealth in the process of diagnosing and treating COVID-19 (Hajizadeh & Monaghesh, 2020). The research aimed to show on the recent example that telehealth technologies can be efficiently used to decrease the number of patients in medical organizations. The authors claim that the pandemic proved that the prevalent percentage of visits could be transmitted to the online format (Hajizadeh & Monaghesh, 2020). Moreover, telehealth is beneficial during the pandemic-like situations: people can get consultations without visiting public places. The COVID-19 case empowers the future appliance and development of telehealth technologies.
The most vital aspect of telehealth during the pandemic was ensuring the awareness of the people about possible virus prevention and treatment opportunities. Being in social isolation, people were at a high risk of developing the psychological stress related to the virus caused by health concerns. Telehealth was the pressure-controlling measure providing all necessary information pertaining to the COVID-19. As it is mentioned in the article, the total percentage of telehealth users increased significantly during the pandemic period (Hajizadeh & Monaghesh, 2020). Thus, people being deprived of the physical opportunity to visit medical organizations started to adapt to such conditions. Telehealth can be the future of modern medicine, significantly alleviating the work of medical organizations and decreasing the number of face-to-face contacts. Such possibilities will allow the medical providers to focus on other vital patient safety questions. Even if the first appointment is held through the telehealth systems, the work of medical organizations will be significantly simplified.
Reference
Hajizadeh, A., & Monaghesh, E. (2020). The role of telehealth during COVID-19 outbreak: A systematic review based on current evidence. BMC Public Health, 20(1193), 1–9.