Fitzgerald Mitchell(left), senior director at the University Hospital of the West Indies; Shekar Reddy Sanumpudi (centre), business development manager at Advanced Integrated Systems (AIS); and Mr. Douglas Halsall (right), CEO at Advanced Integrated Systems, enjoys each other’s company at AIS Celebratory Dinner in Norbrook, Kingston.

Given the advent of COVID-19 and its new worldwide norm of social distancing, the use of telemedicine by practising physicians and patients is set to accelerate in Jamaica.

As such, medical technology solutions companies across the globe are lining up to facilitate the increased demand for telemedicine due to the spread of the novel coronavirus and the need to avoid large gatherings and close social encounters. Telemedicine is the most topical issue in the medical space today and for good reason, because it addresses many of the concerns regarding the implications of COVID-19, in particular instant access to medical care and attaining efficiencies in medical treatment.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sunday-finance/building-out-telemedicine-ecosystem-in-jamaica-as-social-distancing-becomes-the-norm_195155