Ahmed Waqas|Soo Huat Teoh|Luís Velez Lapão|Luíz Ary Messina|Jorge César Correia
Harnessing Telemedicine for the Provision of Health Care: Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis
University of Liverpool|Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universidade Nova de Lisboa|National Education and Research Network|University of Geneva
background recent decades advances information technology given new momentum telemedicine research advances telemedicine range individual population levels allowing exchange patient information diagnosis management health problems primary care prevention education physicians via distance learning objective scientometric investigation aims examine collaborative research networks dominant research themes disciplines seminal research studies contributed field telemedicine information vital scientists institutions policy stakeholders evaluate research areas infrastructural scholarly contributions required methods analyses used citespace version 40 r5 drexel university javabased software allows scientometric analysis especially visualization collaborative networks research themes specific field results found scholarly activity experienced significant increase last decade important works conducted institutions located highincome countries disciplinespecific shift radiology telestroke teledermatology telepsychiatry primary care observed important innovations yielded collaborative influence reported following medical disciplines descending order public environmental occupational health psychiatry pediatrics health policy services nursing rehabilitation radiology pharmacology surgery respiratory medicine neurosciences obstetrics geriatrics conclusions despite continuous rise scholarly activity telemedicine noticed several gaps literature instance primary secondary research central telemedicine conducted context highincome countries including evidence synthesis approaches pertained implementation aspects telemedicine furthermore research landscape implementation telemedicine infrastructure expected see exponential progress covid19 era