Doctors and patients are increasingly adopting telemedicine equipment to diagnose and treat during the existing pandemic. So why do other people who need to get tested for COVID-19 still venture into clinics or medical offices, where they might be potentially exposed or exposed to other people with the new coronavirus?The competitive transition to self-administered home testing before a wave of imaginable moments deserves to remain a national priority.
In March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revised telemedicine regulations, releasing a modernized clinical formula that has been in place for far too long, but seven months after the pandemic began, when the US records an average of more than 50,000 new cases Today, we still have to optimize our telemedicine functions to screen, treat and isolate Americans without creating unnecessary exposure for other people who are in shape, by adding front-line physical care workers who administer tests from laboratory.
On TV news shows, we saw other people queuing for hours to be reviewed by COVID. Medical offices and clinics have taken every precaution imaginable to protect control subjects and fitness personnel from exposure, but, as we know from the start during the pandemic, the most productive way to stay safe is to avoid closed public places.
Home verification is nothing new. American women have self-administered home pregnancy checks for more than 40 years. People with diabetes control their insulin grades at home. There are also many other examples of successful home health control regimens, which add screens that can run into colon cancer or bad cholesterol grades.
Imagine if all these tests were administered in a clinical setting, medical services would be overtaken and millions more people would be exposed to contagious diseases such as COVID.
My colleagues and I have argued since the pandemic took over the United States for the first time that the detection of COVID-19 at home, under the supervision of a qualified professional through telemedicine, can ensure widespread and equitable availability of care Seven months later, this vision can nevertheless become a truth as greater control functions become available. The most notable are Abbott Lab BinaxNOW kits, which use an undeniable self-administered nasal pattern to produce effects in 15 minutes. The federal government announced this week that it was beginning distributing more than a hundred million of those checks to states.
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The benefits of home testing on virtual fitness platforms go beyond the convenience and protection of individual candidates. This technique can also provide public physical fitness officials with more knowledge and build the kind of confidence needed to safely reopen key sectors of the economy.
Once those responses are widely used, a smartphone app can simply record the verification effects and upload them (without non-public knowledge and exact location) to a national knowledge base so that researchers and the public can track the spread of contagion.
Self-check-in at home will allow others to check before traveling, going to school or work, attending a busy event, or visiting a high-risk friend or family member. When a user gets a positive result, it is simply quarantined until they no longer pose a threat of contagion to others.
Of course, home tests will need to be accurate and verified; applicants deserve to be aware that the effects they are achieving are as accurate as possible; everyone deserves to know that the effects have been as they deserve to be reported. There are too many social and monetary incentives for applicants to make false claims about their effects, so independent validation of the evidence that protects patient privacy and public health is desired, but highly achievable. In fact, many physicians have already followed telemedicine to communicate with a patient before or after a COVID test. Abbott’s NAVICA Pass, which provides users with a cellular “green light” after a negative test, is a good example of verification at work.
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While construction in cases where we move towards a colder climate, abandoning face-to-face evaluation in favor of home administration is a no-brainer, and many Americans, adding the elderly who are most at risk of primary headaches, are in a July survey of 1,000 Medicare-eligible Americans revealed a 300% increase in the number of older people using telemedicine facilities since the beginning of the pandemic. 89% of respondents said they own a smartphone and more than two-thirds having an iPad or other tablet, it would be relatively easy to use telemedicine equipment to help them verify COVID-19 without leaving home.
The generation exists and others need to be tested at home, where they are not at risk of exposure to the virus. It’s time to re-evaluate testing centers and invest to bring coronavirus detection to the 21st century.
Dr Marty Makary is a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today and “The Price We Pay: What Ruined American Health Care and How to Fix It. “Follow him on Twitter: @MartyMakary
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