Physiotherapist perceptions on rehabilitation services digitalization
Abstract
Digital health solutions have experienced an essential expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic. Digitization contributes to ensuring the continuity of care for people and offers the possibility of more accessible access to information related to the patient, facilitates communication and can be a way to provide medical services through telemedicine. This work aims to identify the potential of the digitization of physiotherapy services. 17 physiotherapists from Romania completed a questionnaire with ten items. The results showed that although physiotherapists consider themselves prepared for computer systems, their use in medical practice mainly relates to communication with colleagues and other medical specialties.
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