Virtual care refers to digital healthcare services that allow patients and doctors to communicate in real-time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, demand increased for telemedicine as people feared visiting hospitals. Several telemedicine platforms were introduced in Bangladesh, including Sebaghar which allows video calls with doctors, and Daktarbhai for online appointments. Artificial intelligence has also helped with rapid COVID-19 diagnosis by processing CT scans. Robots are being used more during the pandemic, such as the Alana system which provides health information and detects misinformation. Digitalization has helped with healthcare staff recruitment through databases of verified medical professionals. Virtual care has been crucial for surviving the pandemic by connecting the world.

1. VIRTUAL
CARE IN
COVID- 19
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Submitted to: Taslima Ferdaus Shuva
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Department of Computer Science and
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3. Presentation Outline
Virtual Care
Telemedecine
AI in diagnostics
Robotics
Digitalization
Conclusion
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4. Virtual Care
The term virtual care is a way of talking
about all the ways patients and doctors
can use digital tools to communicate in
real-time. Virtual care is a term that refers
to a variety of digital healthcare services
with the help of different technology.

5. The coronavirus pandemic has created massive demand for
telemedicine as most people are still reluctant to go to hospitals
fearing contracting Covid-19.
Telemedicine is the exchange of medical information from one
location to another using electronic communication, which
improves patient health status.
Many telemedicine platform were introduced and used in our
country. For example:
Sebaghar, a telemedicine mobile app, by which patients can
speak directly to doctors for advice and prescriptions.
Daktarbhai, a telemedicine platform, offers online doctor’s
appointment services with facilities for electronic health
records.
TELEMEDICINE
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6. AI in Diagnostic
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been an asset that has facilitated
rapid diagnosis and risk prediction of COVID-19. For example, in
China, a cloud-based AI-assisted CT service has been used to
detect COVID-19 pneumonia cases. This technology reportedly
processes CT images in seconds, differentiating COVID-19from
other lung diseases and speeds up the diagnostic process
substantially.
Moreover, Sonavi Labs’ Feelix, an AI-enabled digital stethoscope
and software to diagnose respiratory conditions, has been to
researchers at the American Hospital in Dubai, to build a
reference library of clean audio files for the COVID-19 disease.

7. ROBOTICS
Robots are becoming commonplace in healthcare today,
even more so during the pandemic. Today, robots that are
being built can handle multiple different scenarios.
An interesting example is Heriot-Watt’s Alana system that
has been designed to deliver health-related information
and support via conversational AI, during the pandemic.
Some of its important features are that it can detect myths
and misinformation and offers mental health advice. It also
only outputs validated sources of information such as from
the World Health Organization (WHO).

8. Digitalization
In a period where staffing shortages are
hampering the efforts to contain COVID-19,
recruitment has become a major challenge. As
the pandemic intensifies, TrueProfile.io – a
provider of primary source verification (PSV)
solutions – provides access to their database
of job-seeking, verified healthcare staff in the
GCC via TrueProfile.io Recruiting. It enables
hiring managers to access a digital pool of
verified medical staff in the GCC who are
actively seeking new opportunities.

9. Conclusion
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Many more use of technologies were done in this
pandemic situation but motto of every use was saving
people. Many social media platforms like
facebook,whatsapp,etc were used for the treatment of
the patients. In a word it would become quite difficult to
survive such pandemic situation without the help of
virtual care. It made the world one big platform.

10. Stay clean and
safe