Telemedicine Across the Globe-Position Paper From the COVID-19 Pandemic Health System Resilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) International Consortium (Part 1)

Frontiers in Public Health

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Sonu Bhaskar¹  Pravin Thomas¹  Viviana Mucci¹  Sebastian Moguilner¹  Simon Israel-Korn¹  Jason Alacapa¹  Abha Mishra¹  Shawna Pandya^1,10  Starr Schroeder^1,11  Ashish Atreja^1,12  Maciej Banach^1,13  Sian Bradley^1,15  Daniel Ray^1,16  Vijay Kumar Chattu^1,17  Anil Adisesh^1,17  Alma Nurtazina^1,18  Saltanat Kyrykbayeva^1,18  Sateesh Sakhamuri^1,19  Sanni Yaya¹  Thankam Sunil¹ 

[1] Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium;Department of Neurology, Liverpool Hospital and South Western Sydney Local Health District;Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory & NSW Brain Clot Bank, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Medicine;Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom;School of Science, Western Sydney University;Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin;Movement Disorders Institute, Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University;metaHealth Insights and Innovation;Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi;University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services and Project PoSSUM;Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital and Project PoSSUM, United States;Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, United States;Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute (PMMHRI) in Lodz, Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora;Department of Hypertension, Medical University of Lodz;The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Medicine Sydney, South West Sydney Clinical School;Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London (UCL) & NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom;Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital;Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Semey Medical University;The University of the West Indies;School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa;Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, United States

关键词: telemedicine;    telehealth;    digital technologies;    health policy;    COVID-19;    framework;    recommendations (guidelines);    geographics;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2020.556720

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine globally. The current consortium critically examines the telemedicine frameworks, identifies gaps in its implementation and investigates the changes in telemedicine framework/s during COVID-19 across the globe. Streamlining of global public health preparedness framework that is interoperable and allow for collaboration and sharing of resources, in which telemedicine is an integral part of the public health response during outbreaks such as COVID-19, should be pursued. With adequate reinforcement, telemedicine has the potential to act as the “safety-net” of our public health response to an outbreak. Our focus on telemedicine must shift to the developing and under-developing nations, which carry a disproportionate burden of vulnerable communities who are at risk due to COVID-19.

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