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Review
. 2020 Sep-Oct;14(5):943-946.
doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2020.06.036. Epub 2020 Jun 20.

Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system

Karthikeyan Iyengar  1 , Ahmed Mabrouk  2 , Vijay Kumar Jain  3 , Aakaash Venkatesan  4 , Raju Vaishya  5
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Review

Learning opportunities from COVID-19 and future effects on health care system

Karthikeyan Iyengar et al. Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

Background and aims: COVID-19 has had a crippling effect on the health care systems around the world with cancellation of elective medical services and disruption of daily life. We would like to highlight the learning opportunities offered by the current pandemic and their implication for a better future health care system.

Methods: We have undertaken a comprehensive review of the current literature to analyse the consequences of COVID-19 on health care system. Using suitable keywords like 'COVID-19', 'telemedicine', 'health care' and 'remote consultations' on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first week of May we gathered information on various aspects of effect of COVID-19.

Results: There has been a shared drive worldwide to devise strategies to protect people against viral transmission with reinforcement of hand hygiene and infection control principles but also to provide continuity of health care. Virtual and remote technologies have been increasingly used in health care management.

Conclusion: COVID-19 has offered unique learning opportunities for the health care sector. Rationalizing and optimizing available resources with resilience shown on the coronavirus frontline during the crisis are some of most important lessons learnt during the crisis. Importance of personal hygiene and re-enforcement of infection control measures have been acknowledged. Telemedicine revolution will be a vital factor in delivering health care in the future.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; Health care systems; Pandemics; Telemedicine.

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Declaration of competing interest None.

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Lessons learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic to improve future health care reforms.
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