Coronavirus (COVID-19): remote care through telehealth
Vanessa Jordan
Abstract
BACKGROUND: On the 11 th of March 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. 2 Since then healthcare worldwide has had to rise to the challenge of how to deliver healthcare safely to people with health needs without overtly exposing them to this virus. Telehealth is used to describe interventions delivered over distance and is made up of the following three components. First the patient provides data, second the information is transferred electronically and then third the clinician provides feedback. Cochrane has put together a special collection highlighting all the evidence currently summarised in systematic reviews with relevance to telehealth. 1 This will hopefully assist health care providers in knowing the best ways to offer telehealth in order to gain the most benefit.