Assistant Professor, QT & OM Area, FORE School of Management, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2020 Jun;64(Supplement):S234-S236. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_480_20.
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has put restriction of travel, and social distancing has become a new normal. This outbreak of the pandemic has made telemedicine more relevant than ever. The objective of this study is to identify the factors affecting the rate of adoption of telemedicine and effect of the COVID-19 on these factors. The research develops five hypotheses to test the influence of a disease outbreak on the rate of telemedicine adoption. The method used for the study is the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and the sampling method used for the study is purposive sampling. The respondents were taken from a multispecialty clinic in North India and the sample size for the study is 43. The study concludes that patients are seeing more value in the use of telemedicine during COVID-19. They are more willing to experiment with telemedicine and are not intimidated by the technology related to telemedicine.
新型冠状病毒病（COVID-19）已限制了出行，保持社交距离已成新常态。此次大流行使远程医疗变得前所未有地重要。本研究的目的是确定影响远程医疗采用率的因素，以及 COVID-19 对这些因素的影响。研究提出了五个假设来测试疾病爆发对远程医疗采用率的影响。本研究采用的方法是 Wilcoxon 符号秩检验，采用的抽样方法是目的性抽样。受访者来自印度北部的一家多专科诊所，研究样本量为 43 人。研究得出的结论是，在 COVID-19 期间，患者更加看重远程医疗的使用。他们更愿意尝试远程医疗，并且不会被远程医疗相关技术所吓倒。
