‘Hello’ – the humble telephone re-emerges among the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Editor – I read with interest the paper by Hayes describing equipment needed to work from home in medicine.1 I agree with the emphasis placed on the simple telephone over more hyped high-tech solutions which the NHS digital infrastructure was never pre-equipped with. Recently, healthcare technology buzzed with artificial intelligence, big-data analytics, and increasingly advanced diagnostics. By March 2020, amid a global health crisis, most technological efforts were re-directed into countering COVID-19. Big-data-analytics were used to model viral activity …