Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa.
Ottawa Hospital and Regional Viral Hepatitis Telemedicine Program.
Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Apr 1;60(7):1084-94. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciu1143. Epub 2014 Dec 16.
Telemedicine technologies are rapidly being integrated into infectious diseases programs with the aim of increasing access to infectious diseases specialty care for isolated populations and reducing costs. We summarize the utility and effectiveness of telemedicine in the evaluation and treatment of infectious diseases patients. The use of telemedicine in the management of acute infectious diseases, chronic hepatitis C, human immunodeficiency virus, and active pulmonary tuberculosis is considered. We recapitulate and evaluate the advantages of telemedicine described in other studies, present challenges to adopting telemedicine, and identify future opportunities for the use of telemedicine within the realm of clinical infectious diseases.
远程医疗技术正迅速融入传染病项目，旨在为隔离人群增加获得传染病专业护理的机会并降低成本。我们总结了远程医疗在评估和治疗传染病患者方面的效用和效果。考虑了远程医疗在急性传染病、慢性丙型肝炎、人类免疫缺陷病毒和活动性肺结核管理中的应用。我们概括并评估了其他研究中描述的远程医疗的优势，提出了采用远程医疗所面临的挑战，并确定了远程医疗在临床传染病领域的未来应用机会。
