Knowledge and Perception of Telemedicine and Telerehabilitation on patient data sharing during COVID-19

<jats:p>Fostering the community in Selangor, Malaysia with sufficient knowledge and perception toward telemedicine and telerehabilitation will be the key factor that leads to better health care service delivery nowadays due to COVID-19 situation. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the association between the knowledge and perception levels of telemedicine and telerehabilitation with community acceptance on patient data sharing. A total of 369 community of Selangor, Malaysia was recruited into a cross-sectional study. An online questionnaire which consists of demographic, knowledge, perception, and willingness adoption of telemedicine and telerehabilitation, acceptance of patient data sharing was used for data collection. The questionnaire link was sent via social platform. Majority of the community have good perception toward telemedicine and telerehabilitation, overall community acceptance is high. However, only 29% of community have high knowledge about telemedicine and telerehabilitation. There is a statistically significant between perception and community acceptance of patient data sharing. As a conclusion, the perception of telemedicine and telerehabilitation and the concern to share data will influence the community acceptance of patient data sharing. Therefore, it is important to have webinar that open to public to develop a good impression of telehealth and decrease the concern of public when applied telehealth in daily life.</jats:p>