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Abstract

Disasters and pandemics pose unique challenges to health care delivery. As health care resources continue to be stretched due to the increasing burden of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, telemedicine, including tele-education, may be an effective way to rationally allocate medical resources. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a multimodal telemedicine network in Sichuan Province in Western China was activated immediately after the first outbreak in January 2020. The network synergizes a newly established 5G service, a smartphone app, and an existing telemedicine system. Telemedicine was demonstrated to be feasible, acceptable, and effective in Western China, and allowed for significant improvements in health care outcomes. The success of telemedicine here may be a useful reference for other parts of the world.

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Title
Telemedicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From Western China
Author
Hong, Zhen  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Nian  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Dajiang  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Junhua  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Bing  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Xiong, Weixi  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lu, Lu  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Li, Weimin  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhou, Dong  VIAFID ORCID Logo 
Section
JMIR Theme Issue 2020/21: COVID-19 Special Issue
Publication year
2020
Publication date
May 2020
Publisher
Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor
e-ISSN
1438-8871
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2512754082
Copyright
© 2020. This work is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.