Shende Vaibhavi, Wagh Vasant
Department of Community Medicine, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Wardha, IND.
Cureus. 2024 Sep 10;16(9):e69102. doi: 10.7759/cureus.69102. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Clinicians, researchers in health services, and other experts have been investigating how to improve healthcare using advanced computer and telecommunication technology for more than 30 years. Adequate medical facilities are still lacking in many places of the world. In these kinds of situations, technology can be quite helpful in expanding healthcare access to rural locations and offering better care at a lower cost. The delivery of healthcare is changing dramatically because of telemedicine and telehealth, particularly in terms of improving access to care. This paper aims to provide an update on the history, background, applications, benefits, barriers, and challenges of these recent technologies. This review article also covers the healthcare conditions of rural as well as urban communities. Furthermore, the implications of technologies used and improvement in the health status of an individual are also discussed. During the COVID-19 epidemic, telehealth quickly gained popularity, bringing to light a number of issues. Effective primary medical networks are crucial, as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for improving public health responses during crises and revealed the existing fragmentation in healthcare delivery systems.
30多年来，临床医生、卫生服务研究人员及其他专家一直在研究如何利用先进的计算机和通信技术改善医疗保健。世界上许多地方仍然缺乏充足的医疗设施。在这类情况下，技术有助于将医疗服务扩展到农村地区，并以更低的成本提供更好的护理。由于远程医疗和远程健康，医疗保健的提供正在发生巨大变化，尤其是在改善医疗服务可及性方面。本文旨在介绍这些最新技术的历史、背景、应用、益处、障碍和挑战。这篇综述文章还涵盖了农村和城市社区的医疗状况。此外，还讨论了所使用技术的影响以及个人健康状况的改善。在新冠疫情期间，远程健康迅速普及，暴露出一些问题。有效的基层医疗网络至关重要，因为新冠疫情凸显了在危机期间改善公共卫生应对措施的必要性，并揭示了医疗服务提供系统中现存的碎片化问题。
