Role of Telemedicine in communicable diseases WSR COVID19 pandemic - a review

Abstract

Prior to the evolution of technology, physical examination used to be the only means of assessment of patient necessary for the diagnosis of the condition. With a greater awareness of health and socialisation of technology, every sector of the society gradually got used to with a number of health monitoring gadgets, mobile devices and a number of internet accessing application. As communicable illnesses may spread through channels like air, water or physical contact physical assessment of a diseased person becomes difficult. In such cases other measures of communication like virtual contact, telephonic conversation etc prove to be helpful in the management. These measures are useful even in case of data transfer. This paper primarily focuses on utility of communication alternatives in healthcare along with its merits and demerits