News Release: Telehealth Editors Best Article Award Announced

Published: Fri, 11/12/21

Bangladesh Researcher Awarded Best 2020 Article Award at ConV2X Telehealth Event

Partners in Digital Health is pleased to announce the 2020 Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) ConVerge2Xcelerare (#ConV2X) Editors Best Article Award. The open access internationally read peer reviewed journal examines the value of telehealth and clinical automation, use, scale, business process guidance and economic impact of digital health innovations in an evolving health technology sector.

The award was announced during the ConV2X 2021 conference, themed “Blueprint for a New Digital Health Era,” broadcast November 9-11, 2021. The winning article is titled: “Role of Telemedicine in Healthcare During COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries,” by Muhammad Abdul Kadir, PhD, Department of Biomedical Physics & Technology from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The article presented the highest number of reader engagements with the most downloads, views and the highest number of citations to date.

The article is located at https://doi.org/10.30953/tmt.v5.187

The announcement video can be found here

The work is important because it represents the global bibliodiversity of research content in scholarly publishing that is critical in sharing a wide range of findings including critical local and global issues. This supports the dissemination of research results for the benefit of all in society, while simultaneously promoting diversity in research assessment and evaluation from emerging nations.

Dr. Kadir commented the reason he selected the Telehealth and Medicine Today journal was due to the journal’s timeliness, that it is open access, and that he appreciates TMT’s diverse scientific community and reach around the globe – along with the number of citations received to date.

Published during the height of the pandemic, the article focused on COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern. Ensuring primary healthcare during the pandemic appeared to be a great challenge, disrupted due to lockdown, lack of protective gear and hospital facilities, where the risk of infection spread to non-COVID patients and health professionals. People with acute and chronic ailments were in dire need of medical assistance. The article analyzed challenges in primary healthcare in developing countries during COVID-19 pandemic and the role of telemedicine in solving challenges to minimize virus spread and alleviating mental health issues Read the article at https://doi.org/10.30953/bhty.v3.134.

Journal editor-in-chief, Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, expressed how the award winning article is a wonderful contribution to scientific literature emphasizing the issues and solutions reported demonstrate how primary care and telemedicine are critical in helping citizens around the globe obtain better and faster care in developing countries.

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Telehealth and Medicine Today (TMT) is a gold open access international peer reviewed journal examining the value of telehealth and clinical automation, its use and scalable developments, business process guidance, market research and the economic impact of digital health innovations in an evolving health technology sector. Articles feature original research, pilot studies, case use, best practices and perspectives from multidisciplinary stakeholders. Authors are encouraged to submit outcomes data for cost efficiencies realized in health system(s), patient populations or clinical practices in a value based system. A world-class review board includes constructive commentary through rapid and rigorous peer review. TMT timestamps article provenance on the blockchain.

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