Technology in Medicine: COVID-19 and the “Coming of Age” of Telehealth

Abstract

Telehealth has been playing a progressively significant role in the management of the COVID-19 crisis. The enforcement of social distancing measures has had the consequence of reduced technology distance in almost every walk of life. In this chapter, based primarily on the still-unfolding experiences of deploying it during the current situation, we argue that telehealth has finally come of age and that it is time to move it from the peripheries to the center of the twenty-first-century healthcare. To provide a live context to the discussion, several instances of how telehealth strengthened our healthcare systems during the COVID-19 crisis are presented.

Citation

George, B., Bucatariu, L. and Henthorne, T.L. (2020), "Technology in Medicine: COVID-19 and the “Coming of Age” of Telehealth", George, B. and Mahar, Q. (Ed.) International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters (Tourism Security-Safety and Post Conflict Destinations), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-186-820201016