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. 2024 Jan 23;4(4):20230111.
doi: 10.1002/EXP.20230111. eCollection 2024 Aug.

Telemedicine-medical "snack community"-PHS ecosystem: Insights into the double-edged sword role of telemedicine in clinical practice and medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Dechao Feng  1   2   3 , Xu Shi  1   2 , Jie Wang  1   2 , Liying Zhang  1   2 , Yuhan Xiao  1   2 , Dengxiong Li  1   2 , Ruicheng Wu  1   2 , Wuran Wei  1   2 , Akira Miyamoto  4 , Koo Han Yoo  5 , Xing Ye  6 , Chi Zhang  3 , Ping Han  1   2
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Telemedicine-medical "snack community"-PHS ecosystem: Insights into the double-edged sword role of telemedicine in clinical practice and medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

Dechao Feng et al. Exploration (Beijing). .

Abstract

Telemedicine has gained tremendous development during the COVID-19 pandemic. With deblocking and opening, telemedicine accelerates the evolvution of the medical "snack community" and undermines the perception of medical students and staff, which promotes the incidence of psychosocial-related disorders. Moreover, the inconsistent telemedicine adaptability between medical workers and patients aggravates the doctor-patient conflict due to the aging population and COVID-19 squeal. Telemedicine is colliding with the national healthcare system, whose synchronization with conventional medical service is crucial to coordinate the relationship among medical payment, patient privacy and qualifications of clinicians. This study puts more emphasis on the double-edged sword role of telemedicine in clinical practice and medical education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Overall, while telemedicine has demonstrated its utility in health care throughout the COVID pandemic, it is pretty critical to continue evaluating the efficacy and limitations of telemedicine in order to maintain equal access to medical service and high-quality medical education. A new concept as telemedicine-medical "snack community"-PHS ecosystem, where the psychological health education system and partners healthcare system with enough bandwidth, especially 5G technology, could optimize the effect of telemedicine on medical practice and education, is proposed.

Keywords: clinical surgery; medical education; partners healthcare system; telemedicine.

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Partners healthcare system pattern.
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Telemedicine‐medical “snack community”‐partners healthcare system (PHS) ecosystem.
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