Coronavirus: New telehealth technology opens up access to care 冠狀病毒:遠距醫療技術開拓照護的新途徑

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Dr George Laking is doing so via telemedicine -the new way of working adopted across the health sector.It sees clinicians dealing with patients over the phone and via video conference as far as possible, reducing in-person interaction and the chances of spreading coronavirus. It is one of the ways the health system has been upended in anticipation of a Covid-19 surge and is part of “profound, overnight changes,” to the health sector, Laking, a medical oncologist from Auckland, says. 

What we have failed to do over the last 10 years or more is invest in good digital tools.

遠距醫療可以使臨床醫生盡可能通過電話和視頻會議與患者溝通,從而減少人與人之間的互動,並減少傳播冠狀病毒的機會。 奧克蘭的醫學腫瘤學家拉金說,衛生系統因預期Covid-19而促成改變醫療照護的方式。 在過去的十年或更長時間裡,我們一直沒有做的就是投資於好的數位工具...

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Source: Stuff