Malcolm Fisk on telehealth responses to Covid-19 in Australia, USA and UK
Are existing telehealth infrastructures prepared to face the Covid-19 pandemic? Our guest in this week’s Responsible Innovation Story, Malcolm Fisk, has clear answers to that. He is Senior Researcher at the De Montfort University Leicester, United Kingdom and advises the World Health Organization on telehealth and digital health.
The most important insights from our interview with Malcolm Fisk:
- Globally, telehealth received a big push after the outbreak of Covid-19.
- However, only some of the more scarcely populated regions were already use to remote patient-doctor consultations.
- Still, telehealth may become a building block of healthcare systems after the crisis – but only if we design an inclusive infrastructure, which takes the heterogeneity of patients' and doctors’ needs very seriously.
Click “View Video” to enjoy the full interview!
Click on the time stamps to watch the respective topics:
00:00 The Covid-19 situation in the United Kingdom
02:37 The Rise of Telehealth
04:32 Responsibility challenges for telehealth
06:16 Telehealth responses to Covid-19 in Australia, USA and UK
10:56 Predictive potential of telehealth
12:10 Telehealth in the center of health service provision
14:02 Digital Health is here to stay!
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