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<Articles JournalTitle="Acta Medica Iranica">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Iranica</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0044-6025</Issn>
      <Volume>59</Volume>
      <Issue>11</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>17</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Telehealth in Management of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review</title>
    <FirstPage>629</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>640</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Sohrab</FirstName>
        <LastName>Almasi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Farkhondeh</FirstName>
        <LastName>Asadi</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Health Information Technology and Management, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>31</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2021</Year>
        <Month>08</Month>
        <Day>16</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">COVID-19 has created major health-related, economic, and social challenges in societies, and its high contagion has dramatically altered access to healthcare. COVID-19 management can be improved by the use of telehealth. This study aimed to examine different telehealth technologies in the management of COVID-19 disease in the domains of surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up and investigate the challenges to the application of telehealth in COVID-19 management. This scoping review was conducted based on Arksey and O&#x2019;Malley's framework. Searches were performed in Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases to examine the evidence on the effectiveness of telehealth in COVID-19 management. Eventually, 36 articles were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The majority of these studies (33%) were conducted in China. Most services offered via telehealth focused on surveillance, tracking, and follow-up, in that order. Moreover, the most frequently used technologies were social networks, web-based apps, and mobile apps, respectively. The use of telehealth in COVID-19 disease management plays a key role in surveillance, diagnosis, screening, treatment, monitoring, tracking, and follow-up.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/8765</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
