Telemedicine and Virtual Reality at Time of COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview for Future Perspectives in Neurorehabilitation
Marta Matamala-Gomez,Sara Bottiroli,Olivia Realdon,Giuseppe Riva,Lucia Galvagni,Thomas Platz,Giorgio Sandrini,Roberto De Icco,Cristina Tassorelli +8 more
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In this paper, a telemedicine process flow for healthcare of subjects with chronic neurological disease was proposed to respond to the new challenges for delivering quality healthcare during the transformation of public and private healthcare organizations around the world forced by the COVID-19 pandemic contingency.Abstract:
In catastrophic situations such as pandemics, patients' healthcare including admissions to hospitals and emergency services are challenged by the risk of infection and by limitations of healthcare resources In such a setting, the use of telemedicine interventions has become extremely important New technologies have proved helpful in pandemics as a solution to improve the quality of life in vulnerable patients such as persons with neurological diseases Moreover, telemedicine interventions provide at-home solutions allowing clinicians to telemonitor and assess patients remotely, thus minimizing risk of infection After a review of different studies using telemedicine in neurological patients, we propose a telemedicine process flow for healthcare of subjects with chronic neurological disease to respond to the new challenges for delivering quality healthcare during the transformation of public and private healthcare organizations around the world forced by COVID-19 pandemic contingency This telemedicine process flow represents a replacement for in-person treatment and thereby the provision equitable access to the care of vulnerable people It is conceptualized as comprehensive service including (1) teleassistance with patient counseling and medical treatment, (2) telemonitoring of patients' health conditions and any changes over time, as well as (3) telerehabilitation, ie, interventions to assess and promote body functions, activities, and consecutively participation The hereby proposed telemedicine process flow could be adopted on a large scale to improve the public health response during healthcare crises like the COVID-19 pandemic but could equally promote equitable health care independent of people's mobility or location with respect to the specialized health care centerread more
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