Telemedicine for healthcare: Capabilities, features, barriers, and applications

Haleem, Abid; Javaid, Mohd; Singh, Ravi Pratap; Suman, Rajiv

doi:10.1016/j.sintl.2021.100117

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“…Although telemedicine (i.e. the provision of health services to patients in a remote location by using telecommunication technology 23 , and virtual health care emerged as promising alternatives to the classical health-service provision model during the COVID-19 Pandemic 24 by overcoming the risk of in-person exposure 25 , it is a reasonable assumption that not everyone suffering from headaches sought treatment through health facilities (including by using telehealth) and the insurance system. Thus, given the above considerations, the web search volume queries emerge as the best source of relevant information capable of capturing variations in headache occurrences during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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Infodemiological study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increased headache incidences at the world level

Tudor

Şova

2022

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The analysis of the public interest as reflected by Internet queries has become a highly valuable tool in many fields. The Google Trends platform, providing timely and informative data, has become increasingly popular in health and medical studies. This study explores whether Internet search frequencies for the keyword “headache” have been increasing after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, which could signal an increased incidence of the health problem. Weekly search volume data for 5 years spanning February 2017 to February 2022 were sourced from Google Trends. Six statistical and machine-learning methods were implemented on training and testing sets via pre-set automated forecasting algorithms. Holt-Winters has been identified as overperforming in predicting web query trends through several accuracy measures and the DM test for forecasting superiority and has been employed for producing the baseline level in the estimation of excess query level over the first pandemic wave. Findings indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increased global incidence of headache (as proxied by related web queries) in the first 6 months after its outbreak, with an excess occurrence of 4.53% globally. However, the study also concludes that the increasing trend in headache incidence at the world level would have continued in the absence of the pandemic, but it has been accelerated by the pandemic event. Results further show mixed correlations at the country-level between COVID-19 infection rates and population web-search behavior, suggesting that the increased headache incidence is caused by pandemic-related factors (i.e. increased stress and mental health problems), rather than a direct effect of coronavirus infections. Other noteworthy findings entail that in the Philippines, the term "headache" was the most frequently searched term in the period spanning February 2020 to February 2022, indicating that headache occurrences are a significant aspect that defines population health at the country level. High relative interest is also detected in Kenya and South Africa after the pandemic outbreak. Additionally, research findings indicate that the relative interest has decreased in some countries (i.e. US, Canada, and Australia), whereas it has increased in others (i.e. India and Pakistan) after the pandemic outbreak. We conclude that observing Internet search habits can provide timely information for policymakers on collective health trends, as opposed to ex-post statistics, and can furthermore yield valuable information for the pain management drug market key players about aggregate consumer behavior.

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Infodemiological study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increased headache incidences at the world level

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Şova

2022

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“…This is due to the advantages of using spread spectrum technology and codification based on chaos. Haleem et al present schemes for monitoring childhood obesity [ 15 ], but these do not consider data security.…”

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“…Then, parents, in agreement with their health professionals, will take frequently take the anthropometric measurements of their children, which will in turn be sent to the health professionals using the Internet (4G, 5G, or Wi-Fi protocol), with the encrypted weekly report of physical activity and sleep hours, in addition to the categorization of the data as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 . Telemedicine is a valuable technology that link clinicians with patients to ensure they make long-term lifestyle changes, it could be making health more affordable reducing distance limitations by exchanging information about a diagnosis, healthcare, and disease prevention between the doctor and the patient through electronic means [ 15 ], and for this reason, it is important to assure data integrity.…”

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“…On the other hand, telehealth provides remote medical services by using telecommunications and data digitalization, including with computers and mobile devices, with the aim of delivering health care remotely and to manage the health of patients. Physicians can access personal medical information around the world using the Internet [ 15 ], but data privacy must be considered when insecure channels are used.…”

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Telehealth Secure Solution to Provide Childhood Obesity Monitoring

Jimenez-Garcia

Murillo-Escobar

Fontecha

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Sensors

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Childhood obesity causes not only medical and psychosocial problems, it also reduces the life expectancy of the adults that they will become. On a large scale, obese adults adversely affect labor markets and the gross domestic product of countries. Monitoring the growth charts of children helps to maintain their body weight within healthy parameters according to the World Health Organization. Modern technologies allow the use of telehealth to carry out weight control programs and monitoring to verify children’s compliance with the daily recommendations for risk factors that can be promoters of obesity, such as insufficient physical activity and insufficient sleep hours. In this work, we propose a secure remote monitoring and supervision scheme of physical activity and sleep hours for the children based on telehealth, multi-user networks, chaotic encryption, and spread spectrum, which, to our knowledge, is the first attempt to consider this service for safe pediatric telemedicine. In experimental results, we adapted a recent encryption algorithm in the literature for the proposed monitoring scheme using the assessment of childhood obesity as an application case in a multi-user network to securely send and receive fictitious parameters on childhood obesity of five users through the Internet by using just one communication channel. The results show that all the monitored parameters can be transmitted securely, achieving high sensitivity against secret key, enough secret key space, high resistance against noise interference, and 4.99 Mb/sec in computational simulations. The proposed scheme can be used to monitor childhood obesity in secure telehealth application.

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“…Its application is specifically useful in certain population groups such as people who are incarcerated, people who live with disabilities, people who require psychotherapy or physical therapy and patients with well-controlled chronic diseases who require prescription renewals. 8 …”

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Telehealth in South Africa: A guide for healthcare practitioners in primary care

Rabe

2022

South African Family Practice

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The use of telehealth is becoming a prevalent feature in clinical practice worldwide, partly because of advances in medical and telecommunications technology. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been a key driver in justifying the accelerated use of telehealth, leading to healthcare practitioners (HCPs) utilising virtual consultations more avidly. Although challenges remain, recent data have shown that remote consultations are feasible, safe and effective in South Africa (SA) and that HCPs should become proficient in conducting telehealth, virtual or remote consultations. These guidelines are based on the revised Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) General Ethical Guidelines for Good Practice in Telehealth (Booklet 10) and guidelines on remote or video consultations from the University of Oxford, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. These guidelines aim to equip HCPs with the basic knowledge and skills pertaining to medicolegal, communication and practical aspects of telehealth and how to practise telehealth safely and effectively in primary care settings in SA during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

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Telemedicine for healthcare: Capabilities, features, barriers, and applications

Cited by 689 publications

References 151 publications

Infodemiological study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increased headache incidences at the world level

Infodemiological study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increased headache incidences at the world level

Telehealth Secure Solution to Provide Childhood Obesity Monitoring

Telehealth in South Africa: A guide for healthcare practitioners in primary care

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