Telehealth in Colombia, challenges associated with COVID-19

• Published in: Biomédica
• Main Author: Luis Mauricio Figueroa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud 2020
• Subjects: coronavirus infections; epidemics; telemedicine; health education; information technology; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.5594; https://doaj.org/article/0ec558fe64184ab1997a672d34a6faf4

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a revolution of such magnitude that no aspect of human life will be the same from now on. The provision of health services and health education are not unrelated to this new normality imposed by the disease, and its consequences have been reflected in the need to use protocols and resources based on virtuality that most of us had not valued in their real dimension. Telehealth and telemedicine will be basic tools for professionals and teachers and it is our obligation to know them, apply them, and innovate to adapt to this reality.