Application of telemedicine in cardiovascular disease prevention and management

Abstract

With the rapid advances of technology and wireless program, the clinical application of telemedicine is received increasingly great attention for its convivence and real-time monitoring. The present study focuses on telemedicine, which is a new tool employed the newly technology like 5G and artificial intelligence to achieve contactless but real-time monitoring patients or subjects for disease management or prevention of future medical events. Telemedicine is useful for help people that in the remote area and do not have access to good medical treatment, more professional experts, better medical examination system or sound surveillance system. It can improve equality and compensate for regional differences. Herein, we summarized trials that have been done recently, and each was compared telemedicine to traditional approaches. Lastly, depending on these reviewed trials, the present study has summarized the advantages and the disadvantages of the telemedicine. We also reviewed the future direction of development of the telemedicine and the facing challenges of telemedicine.