As people worldwide face a lockdown and need medical consultations, remote health care is an important part of the response, argues EricTopol OpenFuture
and preliminary data suggest it predicted a covid-19 outbreak in Florida by spotting a rise in users’ body temperatures at a time atypical for the flu.
As we collect and share these data, clever processing and artificial intelligence enable new findings to improve health. At Scripps Research, we recently published athat showed that data from smartwatches on a resting heart-rate predicted the onset of flu-like illnesses in geographic clusters as well as, or better than, established means. We just launched a largein America to determine whether the same can be achieved for predicting clusters of the covid-19 outbreak.
Most health systems around the world have still not built digital platforms to conduct televisits. Meeting government standards for privacy is trickier since data shared over a network require special security that would be easier to ensure in a clinical setting. And patients are concerned that their medical data may be hacked or sold.
There is a limit to what telemedicine can do. It will never fully substitute for an in-person visit, lacking the ability to conduct a physical examination and a deep inter-human connection of non-verbal cues, the transmission of empathy, trust and more. Remote health care will be here to stay once the covid-19 crisis is gone.
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