Telehealth Improves Pregnancy Health Care: Literature Review

Abstract

In Southeast Asia, Indonesia has the highest maternal mortality rate. The Indonesian government has made a policy of limiting the visits of pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth is a solution that is widely used to facilitate health services during a pandemic and to develop applications that support prenatal health care. This research is a literature review. The electronic databases used are PubMed, Proquest, Cochrane Library, Clinical Key, and BJOG. Research topic: telehealth in pregnancy, publications 2017–2022, full text available. The MeSH terms “telehealth,” “pregnancy apps,” “mobile health,” “mHealth,” and “eHealth” were employed.. The results of database extraction were obtained for 12 articles from 396 articles. Telehealth improves antenatal care visits, compliance, knowledge, and readiness for childbirth. This review highlights the lack of evidence-based research in developing telehealth to prevent pregnancy complications.