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Emerging Technologies for Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Sam Goundar, Archana Purwar, Ajmer Singh, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things in Sustainable Development, 2023
People under self-isolation unable to attend clinic visits with diabetic and other chronic conditions can be monitored by telemedicine (Intawong et al., 2021). Communications, education for users, and training for staff and feedback mechanisms are to be established in that system. Telehealth appointments can be managed by physicians, nurse practitioners, and psychologists (Farrugia & Plutowski, 2020). In-person and virtual encounters can be developed in telehealth (Rodin, Lovas and Berlin et al., 2020). Existing infrastructure (platform, scheduling, and electronic medical record software) can be integrated into telehealth systems. Different stakeholders and actors can be integrated in this system to prevent bureaucratic hurdles and improve processes. Telehealth regulations can enable virtual care with fast-tracking application processes for remote patients instead of face-to-face visits. Telemedicine can help doctors to check their patients remotely in distant areas where there are shortages of doctors; it is a beneficial and cost effective way of reducing travel and the associated carbon footprints. Waiting times can be decreased, and access to care can be improved with this method. Smart phones with slit-lamps enabling ocular biomicroscopic videography can show the patient’s examination features to doctors, and also image sharing of data can be done easily by just sharing the screen (Farrugia & Plutowski, 2020). Telepsychiatry, a subset of telemedicine, has psychiatric services for patients remotely using information and communication technologies (Khan et al., 2021).
Effect of a mobile application on the precision of the preliminary diagnosis of anxiety
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2020
Walter Junior Mayo Espinoza, Emigdio Antonio Alfaro Paredes
Torous et al. (2014) conducted a study with 100 health patients at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (mental health clinic in Boston, Massachusetts, USA); as a result, more than 50% of patients in different age groups expressed interest in the daily use of mobile applications to monitor their mental health. Regarding the use of information and communication technologies for the care of mental disorders, Malhotra et al. (2014) indicated: Mental disorders are highly prevalent and equally disabling in India as in the rest of the world, and as in other low-income countries, most people with mental disorders continue to receive inadequate treatment. Discrepancies exist between resources and need, urban and rural services, and primary, secondary and tertiary care. Telepsychiatry, the use of information and communication technologies to provide or support clinical psychiatric care from a distance, has been proposed as an alternative strategy. (p. 1)