The CV-19 epidemic has changed the way BC residents work, live and communicate. Behind the scenes, a digital health system expert says the way we think and talk about health has also changed dramatically.
Elizabeth Borkie is a professor at the School of Health Information Science at Victoria University. Her work focuses on health information – developing, implementing, and maintaining digital health care technologies such as patient records and tele health programs.
Her field has been at the forefront of the new Patient-Face Solutions to Covenant-19 problems. Health care technology has improved rapidly, from the emphasis with family doctors to enrichment vaccines.
Borki told the Black Press: “And there were new technologies that were introduced to support things like social stigma.”
Between 2019 and 2020, the number of doctors and patients receiving virtual care as a result of the epidemic has plummeted. About two years later, medical care was transformed into a mix of physical and online options.
“There was still a lot of pressure on health professionals to bring virtual care to vulnerable individuals,” Boriki said. “But you met face to face.”
He said the positive effect of this shift is that patients have more choice in how they access health care services.
“You can say that you want someone to be informed in a variety of ways: not just online but by phone or text message or face-to-face.”
Two initiatives Boriki says the BCV Control Center 19 dashboard and immunization system represent the best advances in patient choice.
He said the latter COVID vaccine would make it as accessible as possible and that direct contact with residents was essential, especially in the early stages of immunization efforts.
“Putting people in a queue, giving them risk-based priorities, and getting individuals to choose the type of relationship they want (works well),” she said. “We have vaccinated so many people in this state in a very short time. And without those processes, we would not be able to do that efficiently.
Moving forward, especially when the Omelon wave authorities are challenging the way Covide is being treated, health information professionals should continue to visit the best ways to report the outbreak to BC residents, Borkie said.
“Covid is a mutation virus, and it is changing… so we need technologies to securely distribute that information and direct people to the service they want.
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