The emergence and rapid spread of COVID-19, on a global scale, happily revealed “insolent” structure gaps and outdated health systems, Posing questions and presented problems that need to be immediately resolved, on issues summed up in one sentence: “modernization of health”.
&nbs;The investment in this field justified all those who foresaw this need but it does not cease to be an imperative solution in the now new landscape of digital health. The support of the development and technological development of health will come through, the upgrading of the >digital files, the integration of tele-health, including telemedicine, the health data. These needs were revealed to healthcare organizations worldwide who are now called upon to use advanced technologies to explore the complex data related to the pandemic.
In Greece, the Ministry of Health is beginning to implement drastic structural changes at all levels of the health system investing in the modern “tools” offered by the digital age, thus trying to fortify itself against unprecedented situations as effectively as the most effective can.
Perhaps, indeed ” Digital health is a one-way street in dealing with new situations, but at the same time these new situations create a fertile ground for investment in this field.
Recent research has also shown that the patient satisfaction of the transformation of a nursing unit into a “smart” hospital is growing spectacularly (95%) while at the same time the cost is reduced (up to 70%) of health services distance compared to the average cost of a typical medical session.
A recent study by the Business and Industry Association highlighted the health benefits of new technologies as among others:
- Emphasis is given to prevention
- Is the >outpatient careproviding remote telemedicine services
- Decongested
- Decreases
In Greece, VIDAVO, which since 2005 has been developing in the field of digital health and research in telemedicine, can be characterized as a company-model BEST Practice of the global market and not as a creation of the COVID-19 crisis.
With integrated technologically advanced, innovative solutions, and ensuring the maximum efficiency of its services, it has documented significant experience in the implementation and provision of remote services Medical Data Management, through The implementation of European projects but also through collaborations with private and public health agencies, private clinics, municipalities, hospitals, nursing homes and telecommunications providers in Greece and abroad.
With projects and actions, VIDAVO shows the way, listening carefully to the needs that are created every day but also aiming at the solution of the problems revealed by Covid-19.
The >temedicine program vodafone supports general and rural practitioners, while promoting preventive medicine. It contributes to the prevention of diseases through their timely diagnosis and is implemented in collaboration with the Athens Medical Center under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Shipping and the Aegean. The National Intermunicipal Network of Healthy Cities-Health Promotion and VIDAVO participate in the program.
In Greece with the millions of tourists every year the need seems to be covered by the smart platform> e-Health and wellness hotel for personalized health care and wellness programs allowing them to doctors and providers of tourism To interact with their customers (even before arrival but also during their stay) and to really take care of their health.
The intangible prescription as a technological solution for connecting doctors with patients & Conducting a fee for teleconferencing and communication is qualified and recommended by the Medical Association of Athens, confirming the quality of VIDAVO’s services, as it is the only one that has CE0653 Class II A certification with the patient’s medical file is now absolutely safe.
Of course all of these are the results of long-term researchand not just reflex actions due to COVID-19. Through these investigations even the end of the allergy can be seen. Allergy-related respiratory diseases will be treated by adapting a wearable device to the patient’s wrist which will collect and send data to the mobile phone and from there to the doctor.
With digital health becoming everyday, the landscape changes and the patient finds that the access he now has to the health system offers him many solutions, easier and more direct than ever. Vidavo will continue to create these solutions and try to deliver the results of its research, in the form of practical solutions, to the public.
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