Use of the Wearable Device in Telehealth during Covid-19

Abstract

The purpose of the review is to find out the extend of wearable devices in the field of telehealth and other technologies used to implement telehealth, as this was the immediate solution to the COVID-19 pandemic for maintaining the social distance and also to treat the patients for disease or consult them, without the physical presence. In the research systematic literature review is being followed. Various databases like pubmed, medline and Google scholar is used to extract information for the list of papers downloaded. Screening based on filters was done removing papers other than English language and included only research papers, excluding articles editorial, etc. Also, some papers were added by snowballing technique while going further with the research. The review helps find some great telehealth technological findings, like wearable technologies and data accumulation. The research has been followed by 28 papers and focuses on the enablers of telehealth and the implication of wearable technologies in times of COVID-19. Originality: The independent search on telehealth and wearable technologies has been combined with reviewing this study and building the framework and the existing studies have been used for the review.