Telemedicine Use in Disasters: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: Disasters have many deleterious effects and are becoming more frequent. From a health-care perspective, disasters may cause periods of stress for hospitals and health-care systems. Telemedicine is a rapidly growing technology that has been used to improve access to health-care during disasters. Telemedicine applied in disasters is referred to as disaster telemedicine. Our objective was to conduct a scoping literature review on current use of disaster telemedicine to develop recommendations addressing the most common barriers to implementation of a telemedicine system for regional disaster health response in the United States. Publications on telemedicine in disasters were collected from online databases. This included both publications in English and those translated into English. Predesig

SUBMITTER: Litvak M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8442996 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature