How does Virtual Care work and will become the New Normal?

It is undeniable that we are all part of a "new normal," and that healthcare is evolving. While no one can predict how virtual health will change in-patient care in the coming years, the dynamics resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic are providing clues. In general, there are several advantages to using virtual care throughout a hospital, including the ability to accelerate diagnosis, provide auxiliary services, and "reduce the danger of communicable diseases transferred through person-to-person contact. Before the pandemic, virtual visits could reduce contagious patients' exposure. The value of virtual care is even more crucial in today's socially distant world.

Virtual Care - The New Normal

Before the beginning of the COVID-19 PHE, virtual care services, including chat-boxes, remote monitoring, and telehealth had grown in recognition and use, but the crisis has greatly accelerated their growth. The availability and adoption of the solution in different markets and populations. The use of virtual care has become a critical tool for communicating with patients about COVID-19 and how they can protect themselves and their families; screening and triaging patients who need to be seen in person, and dealing with lower acuity needs remotely - thus limiting the potential for transmission of COVID-19 while still maintaining capacity in centers for critical care.

For instance, telehealth has principally been utilized to date to give care in regions where there was a lack of specialty doctors, or for on-request. It is currently giving different kinds of care and services, for example, virtual office visits, home wellbeing services.

The COVID-19 has also accelerated the development and use of remote monitoring devices. Patients' status is increasingly being monitored and reported by remote devices such as miniature electrocardiograms and electronic blood pressure cuffs, allowing clinicians to continually monitor and elevate care as necessary. In addition to monitoring COVID-19 patients, these tools have also been used to reduce the exposure of staff members and reduce exposure to other patients. Remote monitoring tools can also help detect undiagnosed heart problems, monitor oxygen levels in the blood, or alert you to a patient's rapid drop in blood sugar levels.

Advantages of Virtual Care

Virtual care can help patients to get more appropriate care conveniently and gives advantages to all patients, regardless of where they live. It supports patients and families to:

Medical care experts have been utilizing innovation to convey care to patients for a long time. Presently, with progress in innovation, the help of wellbeing experts and advantages for patients and the wellbeing framework are much more noteworthy. Virtual care helps medical care experts by:

Future of New Normal

Concerning the pandemic, we don't have any idea what's on the horizon: will COVID-19 have peaks and valleys, will there be a fall 2022 peak, or will the pandemic be a gradual process?

If there are peaks and valleys in the COVID-19 pandemic, we can infer clear use cases and the adoption of virtual care solutions: If there are influxes of patients over short periods, a virtual ICU could be utilized. In case there is a shortage of care personnel during a fall peak, a virtual ICU could be used to provide care. In the case of a slow burn, clinical surveillance can be used to limit the number of team members entering patient rooms.

As a result, the potential of virtual care will ultimately depend on 1) healthcare providers' strategies, and 2) the virtual solution they choose to execute their strategies. Despite this, it is evident that we have only scratched the surface of how virtual care can revolutionize inpatient care even after several months into the global pandemic.