Telemedicine against CoVID-19 crisis

Abstract

With the outbreak of coronavirus and the disease known as CoVID-19 in 211 countries, the disease has become a global crisis. Various ways to spread and prevalence the disease, including person-to-person transmission in the everywhere, have been announced. On the one hand, the low ratio of the number of medical centers and medical staff to the people at risk in the community, and on the other hand, the unreasonable visits of some people in these centers have caused to contact CoVID-19 patients and increased the risk of contaminating them. In this situation, one of the effective methods to monitor individuals in the community without referring to limited health care centers is the use of telemedicine, which prevents the unnecessary referral of healthy and suspicious people to medical centers. Zhai et al. described in their article how telemedicine was able to help the Chinese government fight COVID-19. The Chinese government has set up a teleconsulting center on Chinese mobile phones and Huawei technologies to prevent and control coronavirus called the Emergency Medical Counseling System. The results showed that out of 654 patients with coronavirus who received counseling from this center, 420 were discharged from the hospital after 20 days. Another benefit of this counseling center is the prevention of direct physical contact between physicians, nurses, and patients, thus preventing the possible transmission of infection to caregivers. Also, because of specialized treatment groups limitation through this center, it is possible to communicate with patients through technologies such as video conferencing