Abstract
We come to realize the importance of “telehealth” during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth can be defined as providing health care, including preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services, by using information and communication technologies such as videoconferencing, electronic messaging, and telephone calls (1). With the rapid development of new treatment technology, communication, and fast speed networks, not only telehealth can provide medical services closer to home, but it also should provide the doctors and patients with additional benefits of safety, effectiveness, and satisfaction. HIFU is a new non-invasive ablation treatment for many solid tumors. This paper illustrates how the potential practice of HIFU ablation for fibroids can be modified to make it suitable for doctors in their HIFU training for treatment of fibroids and adenomyosis and for patients who need surgery using this new telehealth development.
Highlights
The Coronavirus pandemic has made history and revolution in medicine, not because it is a widespread pandemic infecting more than 25 million people; it affects the way of life of healthcare providers and patients worldwide
Hundreds to thousands of patients requiring medical consultations and subsequent surgeries would not be allowed to enter hospital clinics or hospitals because all medical facilities are fully used to cope with the COVID-19 crisis
When security and privacy in a high-Intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) telehealth platform are being interfered with, it makes a bad image on record, interfering with accepting this new HIFU telesurgery
Summary
The Coronavirus pandemic has made history and revolution in medicine, not because it is a widespread pandemic infecting more than 25 million people; it affects the way of life of healthcare providers and patients worldwide. Actions are taken in many countries to transform medical practice using telemedicine and telesurgery in clinics or sites outside the acute hospitals This global pandemic on doctors’ education and training has been affected at all levels and in all countries. The high-Intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation treatment is one of the latest developments, which is increasingly used to treat uterine fibroids, adenomyosis, and solid cancers [6,7,8]. From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the author has accumulated experience over a few months about using HIFU telehealth services via the social communication platform for his patients and training doctors. Due to the lack of agreed financial arrangement, and legal implications of online medical consultation, patients were still required to return for assessment before HIFU surgery. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2021, 09(02), 027–031 Chongqing HAIFU Medical Technology Ltd has established a telemedicine center that provides a monitoring and supervision platform in a large room with multiple large monitors on the wall (Figure 2)
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