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Trends in Telemedicine & E-health

Telehealth in Australia on the Road to Sustained Behavioral Change

  • Open or CloseDoug Vogel*

    Professor of Information Systems, China

    *Corresponding author:Doug Vogel, Professor of Information Systems, China

Submission: January 15, 2021Published: January 28, 2021

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been applied in healthcare for decades, albeit with relatively limited application and impact. Times have changed. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the fore the need for creative use of technology to deal with challenges and help manage risk. In the presence of the Covid-19 pandemic, use of ICT to mitigate the necessity of face-to-face interaction has become increasingly commonplace. Telehealth has been said to have advanced 10 years in the past 10 months. Applied in a variety of circumstances in a variety of ways, ICT is gaining attention and recognition.

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