5th International Conference on Health and Health Psychology

Abstract

The outbreak of coronavirus disease in 2019-2020 has caused an intense disruption in the world as individuals and organizations recommend the significant factors in slowing down infection rates. One of the recommendations was keeping a social distance, which meant people would work from home, and some businesses would close down (Maurrasse et al. 2020). Since healthcare is an essential service, the practitioners and patients had to device a new scheduling appointment. Through telehealth, a 21st-century technology, the two could communicate remotely while protecting each other from the transmission of COVID-19 as established by Bryant, Fedson, and Sharafkhaneh (2020). This paper has evaluated the methodology and tabled a discussion concerning the research questions indicated. The paper seeks to show the implications of virtual healthcare during the pandemic. It is concluded that telehealth has been adopted worldwide, with patients able to access their preferred doctors for various medical challenges.