magazineAuthors: Hoang Bui Hai (2020)
COVID-19 has been declared as a pandemic since March 2020. Since healthcare workers and patients in
isolation have a high risk of being infected, hospitals in countries affected by COVID-19 are facing challenges
in protecting their healthcare workers to response to the increased demand of health services while maintaining
quality of care for their patients. This study described the deployment of a Tele-ICU system in screening
process for COVID-19 at Hanoi Medical University Hospital. The screening processes of SARS-CoV-2 for two
illustrative cases admitted to the Emergency Department (i.e., one patient received Tele-ICU and the other did
not) were described and compared. The scr...