Systematic review on telemedicine platforms in lockdown periods: Lessons learned from the COVID‑19 pandemic
نویسندگان
1 Department of Health Information Technology, School of Paramedical, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
2 Department of Public Health, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
3 Department of Heath Information Technology, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran, Student Research Committee, Abadan University of Medical Sciences, Abadan, Iran
4 Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine Biotechnology and Medicinal Plants Research Center, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
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چکیده
With the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) outbreak, the transformation of the caredelivery model from conventional in-person (face to face) to largely virtual or remote care has beenaccelerated to appropriately allocate resources and constrain the spread of the virus. In this regard,telemedicine is a breakthrough technology to battle against the COVID‑19 emergency. Therefore, wesought to identify the telemedicine applications in the COVID‑19 pandemic (tele‑COVID) accordingto interaction modes, transmission modalities, and disease categories. This systematic reviewwas conducted through searching five databases including PubMed, Scopus, ProQuest, Web ofScience, and Science Direct. Inclusion criteria were studies clearly outlining any use of telemedicineinteractive mode during the COVID‑19 pandemic, written in English language and published inpeer-reviewed journals in 2020. Finally, 43 articles met the inclusion out of the 1118 search results.Telemedicine provides a diversity of interaction modes and modalities affordable by patients andphysicians including short message service, E-mail and web portals, secure telephone calls or VOIP,video calls, interactive mobile health applications (m-Health), remote patient monitoring, and videoconferencing. Transmission of video data using synchronized video calls via common social mediahad the highest and exchange of data using store-forward service via secure messaging technologyand prerecorded multimedia had the lowest popularity for virtual disease management during theCOVID‑19 outbreak. Selection of telemedicine communication services and interaction modes withregard to its use‑case, disease category, and application plays a significant role in the success ofremote disease management infrastructures in this scenario and their implication for a better futurehealthcare system.
