T/GDSBME 001-2024 Orthopedic remote medical services protocol (General provisions)

Scope

China is a vast country with marked urban-rural disparities, featuring a geographical pattern in which central cities radiate to multiple satellite counties and districts. In many regions, patients need to spend 1 hour or even longer on transportation to access relatively high-quality medical services. Face-to-face medical consultations require patients to expend a great deal of manpower, material resources, and financial costs, which to some extent increases the difficulty of seeking medical treatment. Telemedicine, through audio and video interaction and remote sharing of medical data, enables online communication between medical institutions in different regions and at different levels, breaking through geographical and spatial limitations and alleviating the difficulties of patients in rural areas in accessing medical services and the uneven distribution of medical resources across different regions to some extent. Orthopaedic diseases, which are common, prevalent, and chronic, involve people of all ages and genders. There is a good practical foundation for the implementation of telemedicine in orthopaedics. Since the beginning of 2018, the Orthopaedic Department of Guangdong Provincial Second People's Hospital has made full use of the Guangdong Internet Hospital, Yangshan County People's Hospital Online Hospital, and the remote medical platforms previously set up in various township hospitals and village clinics in Yangshan County to conduct at least one remote medical practice per week during the process of medical precision poverty alleviation in Yangshan County, forming a four-level medical institution orthopaedic remote medical model including provincial-level hospitals, county-level hospitals, and township/village clinics. Since then, nearly a dozen tertiary and secondary-level hospitals have joined the ranks of orthopaedic telemedicine. To date, significant achievements have been made: in 2021, the "Orthopaedic Remote Medical Standards for Three-Level Me

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