Anawade Pankajkumar A, Sharma Deepak, Gahane Shailesh
Management, School of Allied Sciences, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research, Wardha, IND.
Science and Technology, School of Allied Sciences, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, IND.
Cureus. 2024 Mar 12;16(3):e55996. doi: 10.7759/cureus.55996. eCollection 2024 Mar.
Telemedicine has emerged as a transformative force in healthcare delivery, particularly in improving healthcare accessibility. This comprehensive review examines the impact of telemedicine on healthcare accessibility, exploring its ability to overcome geographical, financial, sociocultural, and infrastructural barriers to healthcare access. Through remote consultations, monitoring, and diagnosis facilitated by technology, telemedicine extends healthcare reach to remote and underserved areas while enhancing temporal accessibility with round-the-clock availability. By streamlining healthcare delivery systems, telemedicine reduces costs and promotes efficiency, ultimately fostering health equity and improving health outcomes. However, technological barriers, regulatory hurdles, and patient acceptance remain. To realize telemedicine's full potential, collaboration among stakeholders in the healthcare and technology sectors is imperative. Policymakers must enact supportive regulations, healthcare providers must integrate telemedicine into their practices, and technology companies must innovate to develop user-friendly platforms. Through concerted efforts, telemedicine can catalyze advancing healthcare accessibility and enhance the health and well-being of individuals worldwide.
远程医疗已成为医疗服务提供领域的一股变革力量，尤其是在改善医疗可及性方面。这篇全面综述考察了远程医疗对医疗可及性的影响，探讨其克服医疗服务获取在地理、经济、社会文化和基础设施方面障碍的能力。通过技术实现的远程会诊、监测和诊断，远程医疗将医疗服务覆盖范围扩展到偏远和服务不足地区，同时通过全天候服务增强了时间上的可及性。通过简化医疗服务提供系统，远程医疗降低了成本并提高了效率，最终促进了健康公平并改善了健康结果。然而，技术障碍、监管障碍和患者接受度问题依然存在。为了充分发挥远程医疗的潜力，医疗保健和技术领域的利益相关者之间的合作至关重要。政策制定者必须制定支持性法规，医疗服务提供者必须将远程医疗纳入其业务实践，技术公司必须进行创新以开发用户友好型平台。通过共同努力，远程医疗可以促进医疗可及性的提升，并增进全球个人的健康和福祉。
