The Development of Telemedicine and eHealth in Surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Taha, Anas; Saad, B; Enodien, Bassey; Bachmann, M F; Taha‐Mehlitz, Stephanie

doi:10.3390/ijerph182211969

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“…COVID-19 continues to transform the telemedicine landscape with breathtaking speed in Europe and America, contrary to the reluctance that existed before the pandemic [ [61] , [62] , [63] , [64] , [65] ]. Telemedicine developments and adoption had been happening at a slow pace before the pandemic [ 61 ].…”

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Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Mbunge

Muchemwa

Batani

2022

Sensors International

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the attention has now shifted towards universal vaccination to gracefully lift strict COVID-19 restrictions previously imposed to contain the spread of the disease. Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an exponential increase of infections and deaths coupled with vaccines shortages, personal protective equipment, weak health systems and COVID-19 emerging variants. Some developed countries integrated telemedicine to reduce the impacts of the shortage of healthcare professionals and potentially reduce the risk of exposure, ensuring easy delivery of quality health services while limiting regular physical contact and direct hospitalization. However, the adoption of telemedicine and telehealth is still nascent in many sub-Saharan Africa countries. Therefore, this study reflects on progress made towards the use of telemedicine, virtual health care services, challenges encountered, and proffers ways to address them. We conducted a systematic literature review to synthesise literature on telemedicine in sub-Saharan Africa. The study revealed that telemedicine provides unprecedented benefits such as improving efficiency, effective utilization of healthcare resources, forward triaging, prevention of medical personnel infection, aiding medical students' clinical observation and participation, and assurance of social support for patients. However, the absence of policy on virtual care and political will, cost of sustenance of virtual health care services, inadequate funding, technological and infrastructural barriers, patient and healthcare personnel bias on virtual care and cultural barriers are identified as limiting factors to the adoption of virtual health care in many African health systems. To alleviate some of these barriers, we recommend the development of robust policies and frameworks for virtual health care, the inclusion of virtual care in the medical school curriculum, supporting virtual care research and development, increasing health funding, removing monopolisation of telecommunication services, developing of virtual health solutions that address eccentricities of African health systems.

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Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Mbunge

Muchemwa

Batani

2022

Sensors International

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“…Recently, more and more other studies discussed the implications of telemedicine in orthopedics from various aspects. [ 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 ].…”

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Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Orthopedics and the Implications of Telemedicine: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Hsu

Huang

et al. 2022

JCM

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This study aimed to systematically review the literature on the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the orthopedics field by focusing on multiple aspects, including orthopedic training and application, performance, work loading, change of practice, research work, and other psychological factors. Published articles were searched using the PubMed database. Articles were selected in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Of 58 studies published between 1 January 2020 and 1 October 2021, 57 peer-reviewed original articles were included. Nearly 90% of students experienced an impact of the pandemic on application. The impact on training stemmed from redeployment rates of 20.9–23.1%. The rate of emergency or outpatient visits decreased from 18% to 58.6%. The rates of all surgeries or emergency surgeries decreased by 15.6–49.4%, while the rates of elective surgeries decreased by 43.5–100%. The rate of work loading ranged from 33% to 66%. Approximately 50–100% of surgeons had a change of practice. A total of 40.5% of orthopedic surgeons experienced mild psychological pressure. Approximately 64% had stopped research participant recruitment. Most of the included studies were conducted in Europe, followed by Asia and North America. It is suggested orthopedic surgeons prepare more sufficient, flexible, and reservable staffing measures, proper preventive strategies and surgical scheduling algorithms, and set up dedicated venues and equipment for routine telemedicine with staff training for virtual teaching or consultations in case of future impacts on orthopedics.

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“…During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, technology played an important role in providing safe healthcare, where telemedicine was the most commonly used technology, followed by videoconferencing (Zoom) and social media platforms (WhatsApp) (Abd-Alrazaq et al, 2021). Similarly, telemedicine and eHealth created innovations and a revolution in providing healthcare to patients with surgery globally (Taha et al, 2021). A review reported that the use of m-Health apps is a suitable method, bypassing the costly infrastructure, and is considered more accessible in terms of providing quality health care services, especially in the oncology services (Mehdizadeh et al, 2019).…”

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Development and Evaluation of Internet-based Health Technology in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review

Novrianda

Haryanti

Supriyadi

et al. 2022

Asian Pac J Cancer Prev

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The Development of Telemedicine and eHealth in Surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Cited by 9 publications

References 47 publications

Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Are we there yet? Unbundling the potential adoption and integration of telemedicine to improve virtual healthcare services in African health systems

Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Orthopedics and the Implications of Telemedicine: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Development and Evaluation of Internet-based Health Technology in Pediatric Oncology: A Scoping Review

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