As most healthcare facilities in the world, we at MDHouseCall-Africa as a provider of healthcare consulting in Littoral, Cameroon, have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Africa health systems we serve by turning to telehealth.
Telehealth, the current ‘golden boy’ of the healthcare industry, has made it possible for individuals to receive care when access to it would not have been otherwise. This includes those with mobility issues, people who live in far-flung locations, among others.
But despite its promise, what do industry experts say about the future of telehealth?
As a consulting firm that has worked with countless healthcare systems in Cameroon, let us walk you through some of its most important predictions.
- Telehealth will be a tool to strengthen physician-patient relationships
Because physician-patient relationships are crucial to the success of any treatment and it will have been automatically more difficult in a telehealth setting, telehealth will compel both parties to work on the relationship. - Telehealth will be used as a default tool in managing infectious diseases
As the current global crisis will tell you, telehealth has been the most widely used tool in diagnosing patients with mild symptoms, reducing in-person visits, and thereby easing some burden off the healthcare system. - Telehealth will be utilized in emergencies, and among high-risk and pediatric patients
The scope of areas in which telehealth can be utilized has only started to come to light. But as is evident to us as a provider of emergency response systems Africa programs, telehealth can address the issues that make accessing healthcare among high-risk patients, children, as well as during emergencies, difficult. Among these challenges include limited mobility among seniors and those with chronic conditions, comfortability in children, among others.
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