Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is now of global concern due to its rapid dissemination across the globe. The rapid spread of this viral infection, along with many of its unknown aspects, has posed new challenges to the health care systems. The main challenging effects of COVID-19 are rapid dissemination through close contact and varying clinical severity among different individuals. Furthermore, the medical staff in endemic areas are becoming exhausted and deal with a considerable level of job burnout, which can negatively affect their medical decision making. Also, due to the variable pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19, some physicians may misdiagnose patients. To overcome these issues, we proposed a web-based software to aid physicians in detecting possible COVID-19 cases through online consultation with different specialists and educate the not-well experienced physicians. Our results demonstrated that this software could improve the diagnostic rate for not-well experienced physicians.
Highlights
Since the recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, many different health issues have been raised
It has been reported that using telemedicine during the COVID-19 outbreak may cause challenges in providing effective health care delivery,[3] we believe that telemedicine may help with providing timely and effective consultation as well as practical education for both well experienced and other less experienced physicians in diagnosing COVID-19 patients
Jafarzadeh-Esfehani et al Material and Methods To minimize the misdiagnosis of COVID-19 patients, our multidisciplinary team recently developed the idea of using telemedicine to provide better diagnosis and increase the experience of medical staff who are dealing with the novel coronavirus disease (Figure 1)
Summary
Since the recent coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, many different health issues have been raised. It is well demonstrated that many of the suspected and confirmed cases in Wuhan city, China had close contact with infected patients (even when they were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms) and medical caregivers, as well as family members of the infected persons, are considered as a high-risk group.[1] During the early phase of the outbreak, many hospitals had to limit other services to meet the hospitalization needs of infected patients, and medical staff became exhausted, covering the considerable number of patients referred to hospitals.[1] This situation highlights the three most important issues regarding the COVID-19 outbreak These issues include (i) the importance of effective disease control and case tracing, (ii) reducing the pressure on the medical staff and health care workers to improve their medical judgment and performance abilities, and (iii) educating the physicians who have not previously encountered COVID-19 cases and are not familiar with their clinical and radiological presentations.[2] In such pandemic situations, telemedicine may be a possible solution for health-care services dealing with the mentioned issues. We will discuss our experience of developing software for diagnosing COVID-19 patients and educating the physicians for better diagnosis of this novel disease
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