Standardized Terminology for Symptom Reporting in Telemedicine Consultations
Keywords:
Virtual Consultation, Health Information Systems, Health Informatic Standards, Informatic Standards, Telemedicine, Telehealth, Remote Healthcare, Multimodal Consultations, Patient Trust.Abstract
It is noted that existing research has not focused on the effects of a unified vocabulary on symptom
reporting in telemedicine, hence the aim of this research is to fill that gap. The purpose of this study is to
evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal virtual consultations and their effect on clinical documentation
and patient understanding. A model to overcome the language divide in healthcare is proposed. It was
found that using a standard vocabulary to define symptoms positively influences the consistency of
clinical documentation retention as well as patients' understanding of health information. This paper
demonstrates the significance of achieving the desired level of healthcare remote from health institutions
as well as offering a model that can be implemented globally.
