Tele medicine challenges faced by health care professionals during COVID Era
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| contents | <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Introduction </span></strong></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The novel Corona virus (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to many challenges throughout the world, one of which is the delivery of healthcare to patients while they remained at home to reduce the risk of transmission. India responded, as did many other countries worldwide, with telemedicine and other digital health technologies. So the Ministry of Health &Family Welfare established the country’s telemedicine policy guidelines (25March 2020)(1). Union government institutions and the State-funded ones promptly offered services like e-sanjeevni OPD, a national teleconsultations service, adopted by many state governments and made compulsory for healthcare practitioners.<sup>1</sup></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The WHO has defined telemedicine as “the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of healthcare providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities.<sup>2</sup></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The Covid-19 pandemic added unprecedented burden on an already burdened health-care system in a country like ours. The few studies exploring the challenges in telemedicine have concluded that there is a need of efforts to form guidelines for health care professionals in telemedicine. They recommended that there is a need to overcome technological barriers, ethical challenges, and interpersonal relationship needs of health care professionals.<sup>3</sup> Moreover with the increase of telemedicine usage more challenges in form of medico legal aspect may bother medical fraternity, hence, there is a need to provide proper training to healthcare worker for better medical practices.<sup>4</sup> According to telemedicine practice guidelines, duties and responsibilities of health care professionals has been defined, however challenges in field are still not solved completely.<sup>1</sup> Hence, this study was planned to know the challenges health care professionals are facing in the delivery of health care services through telemedicine.</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Tele medicine challenges faced by health care professionals during COVID Era International Journal of Medical Science and Innovative Research (IJMSIR) novel Corona virus <p><strong><span lang="EN-US">Introduction </span></strong></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The novel Corona virus (COVID-19) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to many challenges throughout the world, one of which is the delivery of healthcare to patients while they remained at home to reduce the risk of transmission. India responded, as did many other countries worldwide, with telemedicine and other digital health technologies. So the Ministry of Health &Family Welfare established the country’s telemedicine policy guidelines (25March 2020)(1). Union government institutions and the State-funded ones promptly offered services like e-sanjeevni OPD, a national teleconsultations service, adopted by many state governments and made compulsory for healthcare practitioners.<sup>1</sup></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The WHO has defined telemedicine as “the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by all healthcare professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of valid information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and for the continuing education of healthcare providers, all in the interests of advancing the health of individuals and their communities.<sup>2</sup></span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US">The Covid-19 pandemic added unprecedented burden on an already burdened health-care system in a country like ours. The few studies exploring the challenges in telemedicine have concluded that there is a need of efforts to form guidelines for health care professionals in telemedicine. They recommended that there is a need to overcome technological barriers, ethical challenges, and interpersonal relationship needs of health care professionals.<sup>3</sup> Moreover with the increase of telemedicine usage more challenges in form of medico legal aspect may bother medical fraternity, hence, there is a need to provide proper training to healthcare worker for better medical practices.<sup>4</sup> According to telemedicine practice guidelines, duties and responsibilities of health care professionals has been defined, however challenges in field are still not solved completely.<sup>1</sup> Hence, this study was planned to know the challenges health care professionals are facing in the delivery of health care services through telemedicine.</span></p> <p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p> |
| title | Tele medicine challenges faced by health care professionals during COVID Era |
| topic | novel Corona virus |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15372892 |