Telehealth at scale can improve chronic disease management in the community during a pandemic: An experience at the time of COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth became a vital resource to contain the virus's spread and ensure continuity of care of patients with a chronic condition, notably arterial hypertension and heart disease. This paper reports the experience based on a telehealth platform used at scale to m...

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Published in:PloS one 2021-09, Vol.16 (9), p.e0258015-e0258015
Main Authors: Omboni, Stefano, Ballatore, Tommaso, Rizzi, Franco, Tomassini, Fernanda, Panzeri, Edoardo, Campolo, Luca
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Blood pressure
Body temperature
Body weight
Cardiovascular diseases
Care and treatment
Chronic diseases
Computer and Information Sciences
Control
Coronary artery disease
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
EKG
Electrocardiography
Engineering and Technology
Epidemics
Evaluation
Heart diseases
Heart rate
Hypertension
Ischemia
Italy
Lipids
Medical care
Medical equipment
Medicine and Health Sciences
Myocardial ischemia
Offices
Oximetry
Oxygen
Oxygen content
Pandemics
People and Places
Physicians
Quality management
Remote monitoring
Research and Analysis Methods
Telemedicine
Viral diseases
Viruses
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Summary:During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth became a vital resource to contain the virus's spread and ensure continuity of care of patients with a chronic condition, notably arterial hypertension and heart disease. This paper reports the experience based on a telehealth platform used at scale to manage chronic disease patients in the Italian community. Our study results support the usefulness of a telehealth solution to detect deterioration of the health status during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0258015