Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. The main aim of this study was to assess the attitudes of patients towards remote care implemented in general practice GP during the pandemic. Methods: The study was a pilot study conducted in March—April , considering technical aspects of using teleconsultations, and evaluating the difficulties, advantages and disadvantages for patients. When assessing opinions, a simple Likert scale was used, where a value of 1 meant the worst possible assessment or strong disagreement and the upper value the best or full agreement of the respondent.
Results: The study covered respondents. Conclusions: Respondents assess teleconsultations in a differentiated way, noticing both positive and negative features of the remote form of providing health services.
As a result of the development of information and communication technologies, access to medical information has increased over the past few decades [ 1 ]. At that time, terms related to eHealth began to appear in the literature. Currently, this term is interpreted more broadly, and its scope has been extended to incorporate health services, including not only providers of these services and recipients, but also entire healthcare systems [ 3 ].
The terms eHealth and telemedicine are often used interchangeably. Nevertheless, there is a semantic difference between them, mainly regarding the possibility of the wider use of eHealth, which is not limited to the provision of remote health services, as is the case with telemedicine [ 4 ]. Telemedicine is defined as the use of various types of information and communication digital technologies for the exchange of medical information for medical education and the provision of healthcare services remotely.
It is used for a number of different activities, ranging from prevention and diagnosis to treatment, monitoring of treatment and rehabilitation. One of the tools offered by telemedicine is teleconsultation, which at the beginning of the pandemic became an alternative to face-to-face consultations in healthcare facilities [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. The importance and use of telemedicine solutions has been growing for several years, due to the fact that telemedicine increases the availability of specialist health services.
