Abstract
The Sri Lanka Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics (SLJBMI) is the official journal publication of the Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka. It is the only academic publication in Sri Lanka which focuses on the emerging field of health informatics. SLJBMI was launched in 2010 as an open access and peer reviewed e-journal. It was temporarily paused publishing since June 2015 and relaunched in 2019 with an improved reader friendly format .The mission of SLJBMI is to publish high-quality original research and other relevant publications that would contribute to the promotion of digital health and health informatics. It aspires to be the most prominent publishing spotlight related to health informatics in the region and to be the gathering platform of the renowned experts and enthusiasts worldwide.
Highlights
Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made healthcare staff work with physical distancing; Telemedicine/Telehealth is receiving renewed attention
Healthcare services provided at a distance has become important in preventing community spread of COVID-19 through care delivery institutes, as well as to protect healthcare staff from getting infected[1]
The types of information that can be transferred from site to site include clinical documents, laboratory results, digital photographs, electrocardiograms (ECGs), radiographs, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, computed tomography (CT) scans, real-time ultrasonography, video recordings, auscultatory sound from electronic stethoscopes and physiological examination
Summary
Healthcare services provided at a distance has become important in preventing community spread of COVID-19 through care delivery institutes, as well as to protect healthcare staff from getting infected[1]. Telehealth can be described as the delivery of healthcare at a distance using telecommunication technologies[4]. Common technologies that transfer information electronically include telephone, radio, fax, e-mail, the internet, video conferencing and satellite-based communications. Telehealth contains both preventive and curative aspects of healthcare delivery. Telemedicine, on the other hand, is the curative or the clinical part of Telehealth[3,5] and can be described as 'the process of exchanging medical information from one site to another via electronic communications to improve a patient's clinical health status'(6).
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