The Benefits and Limitations of Telemedicine During COVID-19: An Overview

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Author(s): Bharathi Depuru (Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam, India), Shanthi Sree Kolaru Subramanyam (Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalyam, India), Suvarna Latha Anchapakala (Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalyam, India)and Lakshmi Padmavathi Pydipati (Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalyam, India)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 8
Source title: Handbook of Research on Advances in Data Analytics and Complex Communication Networks
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): P. Venkata Krishna (Sri Padmavati Mahila University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7685-4.ch012

Keywords: Data Analysis and Statistics / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Wireless Systems

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Telehealth is effective in preventing, treating, and taking precautions to avoid spreading of coronavirus. Telehealth allows people with symptoms to stay at home by helping them to communicate with doctors through the internet. This decreases the spreading of corona virus to large number of people and hospital staff. But when it comes to treatment of patients, telemedicine does have some limitations. Medicines given through telemedicine may not be consistent to patients who have chronic disorders and makes the patients' conditions serious, which leads them to hospitalization. The most significant limitation of telemedicine is that some hospitals do not have equipment to deliver care in this manner. In the present situation of COVID-19, the existing telemedicine has to be modified for helping quick testing and to diagnose the infection to take care of the patients. Hence, some of the benefits and limitations of telemedicine have been summarized.

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