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A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region
INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine use has increased for the past few years, and data security-related issues have also accompanied this. Barriers such as poor digital literacy, unaffordability, and ethical and legal issues have also affected the uptake of digital health. Telemedicine guidelines can help in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmr.2023.0040 |
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author | Sharma, Parth Sethi, Manik Inder Singh Liem, Andrian Bhatti, Hakikat Bir Singh Pandey, Vatsala Nair, Anoushka |
author_facet | Sharma, Parth Sethi, Manik Inder Singh Liem, Andrian Bhatti, Hakikat Bir Singh Pandey, Vatsala Nair, Anoushka |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine use has increased for the past few years, and data security-related issues have also accompanied this. Barriers such as poor digital literacy, unaffordability, and ethical and legal issues have also affected the uptake of digital health. Telemedicine guidelines can help in promoting a suitable environment for wider uptake of telemedicine services by focusing on training, supervision, and monitoring of service providers. This policy review compares the telemedicine guidelines of countries in World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region (SEAR) as these countries have similar sociocultural backgrounds. METHODOLOGY: Latest telemedicine guidelines of the South Asia Region of the WHO were accessed using the official government websites of the countries. The guidelines that were not in the English language were translated into English using Google Translate. The guidelines were analyzed and presented under the following subheadings: (1) Definitions, Purpose, and Tools of Telemedicine; (2) Clinical Aspects of Telemedicine; and (3) Operational and Technical Aspects of Telemedicine. RESULTS: Investigating the telemedicine guidelines in the SEAR of the WHO revealed that only 5 out of 11 countries, that is, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal, have guidelines specifically for telemedicine. Besides Thailand, the other four countries either published (India, Nepal, and Bangladesh) or updated (Indonesia) their telemedicine guidelines after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Guidelines from India and Bangladesh are detailed and robust compared with those from Nepal, Indonesia, and Thailand. CONCLUSION: Telemedicine guidelines need to be more robust to improve the uptake of the service. Further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of implementing these guidelines. |
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spelling | pubmed-105186892023-09-26 A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region Sharma, Parth Sethi, Manik Inder Singh Liem, Andrian Bhatti, Hakikat Bir Singh Pandey, Vatsala Nair, Anoushka Telemed Rep Review Article INTRODUCTION: Telemedicine use has increased for the past few years, and data security-related issues have also accompanied this. Barriers such as poor digital literacy, unaffordability, and ethical and legal issues have also affected the uptake of digital health. Telemedicine guidelines can help in promoting a suitable environment for wider uptake of telemedicine services by focusing on training, supervision, and monitoring of service providers. This policy review compares the telemedicine guidelines of countries in World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Region (SEAR) as these countries have similar sociocultural backgrounds. METHODOLOGY: Latest telemedicine guidelines of the South Asia Region of the WHO were accessed using the official government websites of the countries. The guidelines that were not in the English language were translated into English using Google Translate. The guidelines were analyzed and presented under the following subheadings: (1) Definitions, Purpose, and Tools of Telemedicine; (2) Clinical Aspects of Telemedicine; and (3) Operational and Technical Aspects of Telemedicine. RESULTS: Investigating the telemedicine guidelines in the SEAR of the WHO revealed that only 5 out of 11 countries, that is, India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia and Nepal, have guidelines specifically for telemedicine. Besides Thailand, the other four countries either published (India, Nepal, and Bangladesh) or updated (Indonesia) their telemedicine guidelines after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Guidelines from India and Bangladesh are detailed and robust compared with those from Nepal, Indonesia, and Thailand. CONCLUSION: Telemedicine guidelines need to be more robust to improve the uptake of the service. Further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of implementing these guidelines. Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10518689/ /pubmed/37753247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmr.2023.0040 Text en © Parth Sharma et al., 2023; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License [CC-BY] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Sharma, Parth Sethi, Manik Inder Singh Liem, Andrian Bhatti, Hakikat Bir Singh Pandey, Vatsala Nair, Anoushka A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title | A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title_full | A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title_fullStr | A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title_full_unstemmed | A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title_short | A Review of Telemedicine Guidelines in the South-East Asia Region |
title_sort | review of telemedicine guidelines in the south-east asia region |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518689/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37753247 http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmr.2023.0040 |
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