Hospitals are expected to be overloaded as the global number of covid-19 patients increases. Health care facilities use segregation, self-isolation and quarantine techniques to deal with the crisis. A key contributor to the problem is the provision of healthcare consultation and monitoring to vulnerable individuals who are under isolation or self-isolation, people with recent travel history and post-exposure recovery follow up patients.
Doctors and other healthcare professionals are at a higher risk of getting infected due to direct exposure. We assert this exposure can be substantially reduced with the help of Telemedicine.
FOR MILLENNIA the laying-on of hands represented the essence of the doctor-patient relationship: taking the pulse, tapping on and listening to the chest, feeling lumps—the human touch of the career. But the Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the transition to a new model of remotely delivered health care that embraces the benefits of digital and data technologies. It is not a solution to the current crisis, but it will be one of its lasting consequences (The Economist, March 2020).As companies and even schools adopt the work-from-home solution, remote consultation is also becoming an increasingly attractive option in healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine into a new light.
We believe virtual platforms of Telemedicine can prove instrumental to tackle the situation. Our team aims to develop a robust platform where Doctor patient interaction, consultations, daily updates and follow up is made available through a cloud based virtual platform.
Healthcare professional and patients will be registered on the platform, doctors will be assigned patients and a portal will facilitate daily interaction through virtual appointments. The Telemedicine portal will have the following features namely; Video/Audio online consultation, Access to Profile and History, Daily follow up (Symptoms, Dosage, Food, Exercise), In-app chat (with or without webcam support), Geolocation for providing the relevant data, Sharing prescription, Getting feedback, Answering queries, Expanding medical prescription database.
This will essentially provide a reliable environment to handle those in self-isolation and post exposure isolation.