Frontiers in Public Health (Oct 2020)
Telemedicine Across the Globe-Position Paper From the COVID-19 Pandemic Health System Resilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) International Consortium (Part 1)
- Sonu Bhaskar,
- Sonu Bhaskar,
- Sonu Bhaskar,
- Sian Bradley,
- Sian Bradley,
- Vijay Kumar Chattu,
- Vijay Kumar Chattu,
- Anil Adisesh,
- Anil Adisesh,
- Alma Nurtazina,
- Alma Nurtazina,
- Saltanat Kyrykbayeva,
- Saltanat Kyrykbayeva,
- Sateesh Sakhamuri,
- Sateesh Sakhamuri,
- Sanni Yaya,
- Sanni Yaya,
- Thankam Sunil,
- Thankam Sunil,
- Pravin Thomas,
- Pravin Thomas,
- Viviana Mucci,
- Viviana Mucci,
- Sebastian Moguilner,
- Sebastian Moguilner,
- Simon Israel-Korn,
- Simon Israel-Korn,
- Jason Alacapa,
- Jason Alacapa,
- Abha Mishra,
- Abha Mishra,
- Shawna Pandya,
- Shawna Pandya,
- Starr Schroeder,
- Starr Schroeder,
- Ashish Atreja,
- Ashish Atreja,
- Maciej Banach,
- Maciej Banach,
- Maciej Banach,
- Daniel Ray,
- Daniel Ray
Affiliations
- Sonu Bhaskar
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sonu Bhaskar
- Department of Neurology, Liverpool Hospital and South Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sonu Bhaskar
- Neurovascular Imaging Laboratory & NSW Brain Clot Bank, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, The University of New South Wales, UNSW Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sian Bradley
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sian Bradley
- The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Medicine Sydney, South West Sydney Clinical School, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Vijay Kumar Chattu
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Vijay Kumar Chattu
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Anil Adisesh
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Anil Adisesh
- Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Alma Nurtazina
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Alma Nurtazina
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Semey Medical University, Semey, Kazakhstan
- Saltanat Kyrykbayeva
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Saltanat Kyrykbayeva
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Semey Medical University, Semey, Kazakhstan
- Sateesh Sakhamuri
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sateesh Sakhamuri
- The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
- Sanni Yaya
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sanni Yaya
- School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
- Thankam Sunil
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Thankam Sunil
- Department of Public Health, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, United States
- Pravin Thomas
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Pravin Thomas
- 0Department of Neurology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Viviana Mucci
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Viviana Mucci
- 1School of Science, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sebastian Moguilner
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sebastian Moguilner
- 2Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Simon Israel-Korn
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Simon Israel-Korn
- 3Movement Disorders Institute, Department of Neurology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan & Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Jason Alacapa
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Jason Alacapa
- 4metaHealth Insights and Innovation, Manila, Philippines
- Abha Mishra
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Abha Mishra
- 5Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
- Shawna Pandya
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Shawna Pandya
- 6University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services and Project PoSSUM, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Starr Schroeder
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Starr Schroeder
- 7Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital and Project PoSSUM, Lancaster, PA, United States
- Ashish Atreja
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Ashish Atreja
- 8Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
- Maciej Banach
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Maciej Banach
- 9Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute (PMMHRI) in Lodz, Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
- Maciej Banach
- 0Department of Hypertension, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland
- Daniel Ray
- Pandemic Health System REsilience PROGRAM (REPROGRAM) Consortium, REPROGRAM Telemedicine Sub-committee, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Daniel Ray
- 1Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London (UCL) & NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.556720
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine globally. The current consortium critically examines the telemedicine frameworks, identifies gaps in its implementation and investigates the changes in telemedicine framework/s during COVID-19 across the globe. Streamlining of global public health preparedness framework that is interoperable and allow for collaboration and sharing of resources, in which telemedicine is an integral part of the public health response during outbreaks such as COVID-19, should be pursued. With adequate reinforcement, telemedicine has the potential to act as the “safety-net” of our public health response to an outbreak. Our focus on telemedicine must shift to the developing and under-developing nations, which carry a disproportionate burden of vulnerable communities who are at risk due to COVID-19.
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