Containing Coronavirus with Telehealth

Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) peer review journal, has pioneered the concept of social and economic impact in the sector – now, it reaches across the globe identifying gaps in care and health systems where telemedicine can help. It can help governments provide quality care, near and far, to all citizens, at affordable cost. Today, at the dawn of a new decade, healthcare can truly be democratized and scaled for health citizens around the globe.

At this time, we urge leadership at health systems, providers, policy representatives, government officials, and aid organizations around the world, to unite in service and assistance. 

TMT pledges to operate as conduit to those in need of educational resources, information, access to telemedicine services, expert advisers, and leaders in enterprise, where possible. We know telehealth and telemedicine can deliver healthcare and services where there are none - in remote and rural areas - where preparedness and operations strategies do not exist.

Telehealth can play a critical role in diagnosing COVID-19 since a person can carry and transmit COVID-19 without showing symptoms. The virus can remain infectious on inanimate surfaces at room temperature for up to 9 days, and is spread primarily via respiratory droplets. There is some evidence that people declared “recovered” can be re-infected.
 
 
Telehealth can also help contain or limit COVID-19 outbreaks by:

• Help providers diagnose faster and monitor discharged patients
• Alleviating the workload and stress of overworked providers
• Can be used to monitor quarantined patients reducing the risk to unnecessary exposure

Covid-19 has catalyzed an opportunity to scale the awareness and use of telemedicine by government, citizen, and sector. It will. In the interim, let’s keep all citizens informed and healthy, in effort to contain it.

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About Telehealth and Medicine Today
Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT), is an open access online, international peer review journal where multidisciplinary thought leaders, practitioners, and stakeholders converge to address strategic, medical, technical, legal, policy, economic, and social aspects of a new health and technology sector. TMT assists building knowledge and consensus for deploying and scaling delivery services to achieve sustainable outcomes for affordable, accessible, and quality care for health consumers around the world, by implementing pragmatic approaches addressing issues such as interoperability, quality and safety of evolving technologies, business processes, and economic systems, to drive the global telehealth and the remote care revolution in value based care. The journal is published by Partners in Digital Health, and is endorsed by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), IEEE-SA, and the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH).
https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal

Contact Information

Tory Cenaj

Founder and Publisher

Partners in Digital Health

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t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com