Sidney Hilker , Sitarah Mathias , Dileep Raman , Sanu Anand , Ryan Brewster , Carl Britto
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed multiple pre-existing frailties in healthcare systems including the shortage of critical care services and equipment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The training of a critical care doctor is expensive and time intensive. Novel, low-cost solutions that optimize existing resources and enable the limited number of specialists to deliver care to more people are needed. Telemedicine can sustainably bridge the gaps in critical care services in LMICs. There are limited data on the use of telemedicine for critical care in LMICs. In this paper, we review the few well documented tele-ICU models, with a focus on a novel model in India, and highlight several key attributes including timely implementation, practical on the ground training, financial feasibility, adaptability to the local context, scalability, and quality data collection.
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Health Policy and Technology (HPT), is the official journal of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), a cross-disciplinary journal, which focuses on past, present and future health policy and the role of technology in clinical and non-clinical national and international health environments.
HPT provides a further excellent way for the FPM to continue to make important national and international contributions to development of policy and practice within medicine and related disciplines. The aim of HPT is to publish relevant, timely and accessible articles and commentaries to support policy-makers, health professionals, health technology providers, patient groups and academia interested in health policy and technology.
Topics covered by HPT will include:
- Health technology, including drug discovery, diagnostics, medicines, devices, therapeutic delivery and eHealth systems
- Cross-national comparisons on health policy using evidence-based approaches
- National studies on health policy to determine the outcomes of technology-driven initiatives
- Cross-border eHealth including health tourism
- The digital divide in mobility, access and affordability of healthcare
- Health technology assessment (HTA) methods and tools for evaluating the effectiveness of clinical and non-clinical health technologies
- Health and eHealth indicators and benchmarks (measure/metrics) for understanding the adoption and diffusion of health technologies
- Health and eHealth models and frameworks to support policy-makers and other stakeholders in decision-making
- Stakeholder engagement with health technologies (clinical and patient/citizen buy-in)
- Regulation and health economics
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