TY - JOUR T1 - Telehealth demand trends in COVID-19: an infodemiological evaluation of the top 50 most affected countries JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 20 LP - 20 DO - 10.7861/fhj.8-1-s20 VL - 8 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Mark Wong AU - Yih-Chung Tham AU - Dinesh Gunasekaran Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/8/Suppl_1/20.abstract N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has led to urgent calls for the adoption and integration of telehealth solutions into healthcare systems. However, public interest in and demand for telehealth during the pandemic are unknown. We used an infodemiological approach to estimate the demand for telehealth services during COVID-19 globally, focusing on the 50 most affected countries and comparing the demand for such services with the level of information communications technology (ICT) infrastructure available.We used Google Trends, the … ER -