Our team become interested in telemedicine/telehealth because of its great potential during and postpandemic. However, we would like to seek your suggestions on the specific area of research. Also, most of the team members are inclined to doing qualitative evidence synthesis.
Telemedicine/telehealth projects abound but many never pass the threshold from testing to widespread implementation: pell-mell, the obstacles are likely to be behavioral, economical, organizational, and/or technical. Three research gaps that are often mentioned pertain to what policies might support telemedicine/telehealth; how healthcare providers might be made to feel more comfortable with telemedicine/telehealth technology; and what healthcare providers might need to go beyond routine observations.
Article Developing e-Health Capabilities in Bhutan
Dear Celso Pagatpatan, Jr.,
the use of Human Health Digital Twins (HHDTs) to support telemedicine/telehealth is a current and broad area of research.
At address
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352742244_Digital_Twins_in_IoT/figures
the Figures 10152, 10153, 10154 and 10159 illustrate the idea of using HHDTs.
The added literature sources should give you a broad overview of the use of HHDTs.
Best regards and much success
Anatol Badach
Jorge Luis Rojas-Arce, Eduardo Cassiel Ortega-Maldonado: „The Advent of the Digital Twin: A Prospective in Healthcare in the Next Decade“; In book: Advances in Production Management Systems. Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable and Resilient Production Systems; Aug 2021, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85910-7_26
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354307644
J. Masison, J. Beezley, Y. Mei, HAL Ribeiro, A. C. Knapp, et al.: A modular computational framework for medical digital twins; Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, May 2021, 18;118(20); DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024287118
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33972437/
Haya Elayan, Moayad Aloqaily, Mohsen Guizani: Digital Twin for Intelligent Context-Aware IoT Healthcare Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal ( Early Access ), Jan 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3051158
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9320532
Eugen Octav Popa, Mireille van Hilten, Elsje Oosterkamp, M.J. Bogaardt: „The Use of Digital Twins in Healthcare; Socio-ethical benefits and socio-ethical risks“; Wageningen University, Technical Report, Jan 2021
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348275527
Tolga Erol, Arif Furkan Mendi, Dilara Doğan: The Digital Twin Revolution in Healthcare; 4th International Symposium on Multidisciplinary Studies and Innovative Technologies (ISMSIT), Oct 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ISMSIT50672.2020.9255249
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347023987
Dear Dr Pagatpatan
Thank you for your question and I would suggest to look at the feasibility of this e-consultation and acceptance the Telemedicine/ telehealth among the health care providers and clients.
another area should look at is the user friendliness of the system for the Telemedicine/telehealth from the healthcare providers and clients perspective.