{"id":266697,"date":"2020-08-27T06:22:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=266697"},"modified":"2020-08-27T06:22:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:22:43","slug":"qc-launches-1st-covid-focused-telemedicine-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/27\/qc-launches-1st-covid-focused-telemedicine-system\/","title":{"rendered":"QC launches 1st Covid-focused telemedicine system"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_254654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254654\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-254654 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1440px-7840jfQuezon_City_Hall_Manilafvf_01.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Joy Belmonte said this program will support healthcare workers who are greatly exposed to the virus as it will lessen their exposure and contact with Covid-19 patients. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=39973455\">photo by Judgefloro\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Quezon City government, in partnership with the Department of Health, launched a telemedicine system focused on addressing the needs of confirmed coronavirus disease (Covid-19) patients.<\/p>\n<p>The QC Covid Telemed program is an online system where patients who are undergoing home quarantine or admitted in the city\u2019s HOPE community-caring facilities can consult their doctors without having to personally meet them.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Joy Belmonte said this program will support healthcare workers who are greatly exposed to the virus as it will lessen their exposure and contact with Covid-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough telemedicine, our doctors no longer need to physically visit their patients to do rounds. They can log on to the system and they can do online consultation with their patients,\u201d Belmonte said.<\/p>\n<p>Belmonte added that this system will allow doctors who have co-morbidities or are seniors and limited by their situations from doing full-time hospital duties, to continue performing their profession with no restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven our situation now, telemedicine has a multiplier effect as our limited number of doctors can practice their field and care for more patients,\u201d said Perry Dominguez, head of the Local Economic Investments and Promotions Office and project coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez added that this could be the start of the digitalization of the city\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to more developments in this system where eventually, patients with other illnesses will also be given the same opportunity to have their medical needs addressed,\u201d Dominguez said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 15 laptops and desktops were donated by the Department of Health to support the QC Covid Telemedicine operations.<\/p>\n<p>These will be distributed in HOPE facilities and selected health centers in the city.<em><strong>\u00a0(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Quezon City government, in partnership with the Department of Health, launched a telemedicine system focused on addressing the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":254654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266698,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266697\/revisions\/266698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}