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Review
. 2021;11(2):257-266.
doi: 10.1007/s12553-021-00529-7. Epub 2021 Feb 3.

Telemedicine and e-Health research solutions in literature for combatting COVID-19: a systematic review

Susel Góngora Alonso  1 , Goncalo Marques  2 , Isidro Barrachina  3 , Begonya Garcia-Zapirain  4 , Jon Arambarri  5 , Javier Cabo Salvador  6 , Isabel de la Torre Díez  1
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Review

Telemedicine and e-Health research solutions in literature for combatting COVID-19: a systematic review

Susel Góngora Alonso et al. Health Technol (Berl). 2021.

Abstract

COVID-19 had led to severe clinical manifestations. In the current scenario, 98 794 942 people are infected, and it has responsible for 2 124 193 deaths around the world as reported by World Health Organization on 25 January 2021. Telemedicine has become a critical technology for providing medical care to patients by trying to reduce transmission of the virus among patients, families, and doctors. The economic consequences of coronavirus have affected the entire world and disrupted daily life in many countries. The development of telemedicine applications and eHealth services can significantly help to manage pandemic worldwide better. Consequently, the main objective of this paper is to present a systematic review of the implementation of telemedicine and e-health systems in the combat to COVID-19. The main contribution is to present a comprehensive description of the state of the art considering the domain areas, organizations, funding agencies, researcher units and authors involved. The results show that the United States and China have the most significant number of studies representing 42.11% and 31.58%, respectively. Furthermore, 35 different research units and 9 funding agencies are involved in the application of telemedicine systems to combat COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Literature; Systems; Telemedicine; e-Health.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interestThe authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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PRISMA diagram for proposed literature review
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Percentage category of the research domain area
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Countries of the authors involved in the analysed studies
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