Topical Collection "Telehealth Transformation: COVID-19 and the Rise of Virtual Care, Connected Health and Virtual Community of Practice"
A topical collection in Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This collection belongs to the section "Coronaviruses (CoV) and COVID-19 Pandemic".
Editors

Interests: collaborative learning; web intelligence; health informatics; learning analytics; thick data analytics

Interests: internet of medical things; web intelligence; artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
With the onset of the COVID-19 viral wave, strategies that shift care away from hospitals toward the home and community have gained momentum. Additionally, the guidelines to stay at home and work from home have led to increased awareness of new ways to manage care and interpersonal collaboration. As a result, we are witnessing a variety of apps and services covering areas from automated triage help via smart care chatbots to direct connection to care teams via services such as lightweight videoconferencing, remote monitoring systems, and medical alerts. All these new virtual care services along with the real time data streaming analysis are playing an increasing role in enabling virtual care, connected health, and supporting the interpersonal community of practice.
Prof. Dr. Jinan Fiaidhi
Prof. Dr. Sabah Mohammed
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- Virtual consultation
- Care question answering and VQA
- Virtual community of practice
- Remote patient monitoring and management
- Telehealth, mHealth and eHealth
- Telehealth security
- Telecare robotics
- Connected health technologies
- IoMT and IoT for Virtual Care
- Telecare and wellbeing apps and services
- Real time care data analytics
- Virtual care medical records via FHIR