Abstract
The current COVID-19 pandemic has had various impacts on the world. The unpredictable spike in cases led to an explosion in patient numbers. The problem of limited treatment facilities forces patients to self- isolate at home. Along with technological advances, various facilities have also been created, one of which is telemedicine. This study aims to look at the role of telemedicine as a strategy for handling COVID-19 self-isolated patients in various countries. This study was conducted descriptively with a literature review. The search was carried out on articles published in Indonesian and English through Google Scholar, Pubmed, and Science Direct searches with the keywords COVID-19, home isolation, self-isolation, telemedicine, and telehealth. The search results obtained that the handling of COVID-19 patients in self-isolation with telemedicine is a solution to the need for monitoring patient health, where hospitals have difficulty being able to serve all patients who need hospitalization. It can be concluded that COVID-19 is a newly emerging disease, clinical symptoms and emergencies of each patient can certainly be different and difficult to predict. Telemedicine as a remote health service can be a means to facilitate clinical monitoring of patients during self-isolation. The implementation of telemedicine ensures the continuity of health services quite effectively and efficiently, the way telemedicine works helps protect patients and health workers from exposure to infection and reduces the burden on hospitals, so it is quite appropriate to be used as a strategy in handling if there is a spike in COVID-19 cases in the future or application to other similar circumstances.
Bahasa Abstract
Pandemi COVID-19 saat ini telah memberikan berbagai dampak bagi dunia. Lonjakan kasus yang tidak terduga menyebabkan ledakan jumlah pasien. Masalah fasilitas perawatan yang terbatas memaksa pasien untuk melakukan isolasi mandiri di rumah. Seiring dengan kemajuan teknologi, berbagai fasilitas juga telah diciptakan, salah satunya adalah telemedicine. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat peran telemedicine dalam penanganan pasien isolasi mandiri COVID-19 di berbagai negara. Penelitian ini dilakukan secara deskriptif dengan studi pustaka. Pencarian dilakukan terhadap artikel yang diterbitkan dalam bahasa Indonesia dan Inggris melalui pencarian Google Scholar, Pubmed dan Science Direct dengan kata kunci COVID-19, isolasi rumah, isolasi mandiri, telemedicine dan telehealth. Hasil penelusuran didapatkan bahwa penanganan pasien COVID-19 secara isolasi mandiri dengan telemedicine merupakan solusi dari kebutuhan pemantauan kesehatan pasien, dimana rumah sakit kesulitan untuk dapat melayani seluruh pasien yang membutuhkan rawat inap. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa COVID-19 sebagai penyakit baru yang muncul, gejala klinis dan kedaruratan setiap pasien tentu dapat berbeda dan sulit diprediksi. Telemedicine sebagai layanan kesehatan jarak jauh dapat menjadi sarana untuk memfasilitasi pemantauan klinis pasien selama isolasi mandiri. Penyelenggaraan telemedicine menjamin kelangsungan pelayanan kesehatan yang cukup efektif dan efisien, cara kerja telemedicine membantu melindungi pasien dan tenaga kesehatan dari paparan infeksi dan mengurangi beban rumah sakit, sehingga cukup tepat dijadikan sebagai strategi dalam penanganan jika ada lonjakan kasus COVID-19 di masa depan atau aplikasi untuk keadaan serupa lainnya.
Recommended Citation
Yonathan, Rafika Stany and Nadjib, Mardiati
(2022)
"THE ROLES AND POLICIES FOR THE USE OF TELEMEDICINE IN HANDLING COVID-19 SELF-ISOLATION: LITERATURE REVIEW,"
Journal of Indonesian Health Policy and Administration: Vol. 7:
No.
2, Article 5.
DOI: 10.7454/ihpa.v7i2.6111
Available at:
https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/ihpa/vol7/iss2/5
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