Department of Health Information Technology, Khalkhal University of Medical Sciences, Khalkhal, Iran.
School of Medicine and Allied Medical Sciences, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran.
Infect Disord Drug Targets. 2022;22(4):e240322202551. doi: 10.2174/1871526522666220324090245.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of technology-based services has been incremental by the care providers for patients scheduling, regulatory considerations, resource allocation, thus enabling virus exposure prevention while maintaining effective patient care. This study aims to review the currently available evidence to identify available technology solutions in the era of COVID-19.
A systematic review in July 2020 using the PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Science Direct, and Web of Science databases has been carried out. After evaluating the title and abstract to select the most relevant studies based on inclusion and exclusion criteria, the selected articles underwent quality assessment. The full text of selected articles was then thoroughly evaluated to extract the essential findings.
In this study, 20 technology-based approaches have been identified for provision of healthcare services to patients with COVID-19. These methods included telemedicine, virtual visits, e-consult, tele-consulting, video conference, virtual healthcare, mobile-based self-care, social media, tele ICU, 3D printing technology, telemonitoring, teleradiology, telesurgical, and cloud-based service.
Due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus, the use of technology-based methods for the provision of remote healthcare services can help control the disease. The effectiveness of each of these approaches can be investigated in future research.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，医疗服务提供者为了患者预约、监管考虑、资源分配等目的，逐渐开始使用基于技术的服务，从而在预防病毒暴露的同时保持有效的患者护理。本研究旨在回顾当前可用的证据，以确定 COVID-19 时代可用的技术解决方案。
2020 年 7 月，我们使用 PubMed、Scopus、Embase、Science Direct 和 Web of Science 数据库进行了系统评价。在根据纳入和排除标准评估标题和摘要以选择最相关的研究后，对选定的文章进行了质量评估。然后仔细评估选定文章的全文以提取基本发现。
在这项研究中，确定了 20 种基于技术的方法来为 COVID-19 患者提供医疗服务。这些方法包括远程医疗、虚拟就诊、电子咨询、远程咨询、视频会议、虚拟医疗、基于移动的自我护理、社交媒体、远程 ICU、3D 打印技术、远程监控、远程放射学、远程手术和基于云的服务。
由于冠状病毒的迅速传播，使用基于技术的方法提供远程医疗服务有助于控制疾病。未来的研究可以调查这些方法中的每一种方法的有效性。
