UTILITY OF TELEMEDICINE IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A NARRATIVE REVIEW
Abstract
Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a public health emergency of international concern. Telemedicine is an effective option to fight against the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic and has allowed many patients with acute/chronic diseases to access remote care worldwide, proving to be the ideal solution to overcome restrictions and carry out non-urgent routine follow-ups on patients. Homoeopathy being a holistic system of medicine has been benefiting many people for their health problems. Telemedicine can help to increase the availability of homoeopathy to the level where health care is difficult to reach, in cases where there is no need for the patient to physically see for regular, routine check-ups or continuous monitoring. Homoeopathy telemedicine or teleconsultation will enhance primary health care immensely. In this review literature available from various published studies and data bases like PubMed, Springer, Google Scholar, Elsevier and Cochrane Library and references from the relevant articles published literature were searched in English language up to May 2021.The aim of this review was to identify the role of telehealth services in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling diseases during COVID-19 outbreak. Therefore, telehealth should be an important tool in caring services while keeping patients and health providers safe during COVID-19 outbreak. In future extensive studies are required to further provides implication on the potentials of consolidating virtual care solutions towards contributing to integrate digital technologies into healthcare services like Homoeopathy.
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