Telehealth solutions gives easy access to medical professionals with no waiting time before seeing a doctor and the costs for consulting are lower as compared to in-person visit. With the government and the healthcare industry interested in expanding and strengthening the telehealth services.
How telehealth has improved global healthcare?
Telehealth addresses the pain points of patients and provides quick access to healthcare, especially for rural populations, elders, and people with disabilities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person visits for non-urgent care became a challenge and telehealth provided a quick solution. This has set the path for more improvements and innovations in the field of healthcare.
Benefits of Telehealth to patients and healthcare professionals
COVID-19 has made it imperative to relax the restrictions on the use of telehealth services. State officials are working towards facilitating the process of reaching out to underserved population through telehealth. Irrespective of whether its primary care or specialist, telehealth helps to reach out to more people who don’t have access to healthcare.
Telehealth: A unique solution to the growing opioid crisis during COVID-19 pandemic
Opioid related deaths in the United States have risen during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infact it is believed that isolation leads to addiction and increases its severity. At present the country is facing natural disasters, increase in unemployment, social distancing, thus, an opioid crisis can be fatal during these times.
COVID-19 has made us forget those with acute and chronic health conditions
Prioritizing the prevention of the spread of COVID-19, has globally and unintentionally led to leaving behind those who already live on the brink of life and death everyday. They are people with chronic health conditions. Patients suffering with cancer or any rare disease and hospitals shutting their doors to people not having COVID-19 is a problem.
Some young and middle-aged coronavirus patients are dying of strokes
Doctors have reported that COVID-19 appears to be causing sudden strokes among people in their 30s and 40s who are not otherwise seriously ill. Some young and middle-aged Americans have experienced strokes after testing positive for the novel coronavirus. There is growing evidence that COVID-19 infection can lead the blood to clot unnaturally, and an expected consequence of that would be a stroke.
Half a century ago June Almeida discovered coronavirus, but got little recognition
June Almeida viewed into her electron microscope in 1964 to observe a round, grey dot with tiny spokes. Almeida and her colleagues noted that the pegs formed a halo around the virus just like the sun’s corona.