Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review
BACKGROUND: COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic, affecting most countries worldwide. Digital health information technologies can be applied in three aspects, namely digital patients, digital devices, and digital clinics, and could be useful...
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author | R Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz Deldar, Kolsoum Gholamzadeh, Marsa Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh Ayyoubzadeh, Seyed Mohammad |
author_facet | R Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz Deldar, Kolsoum Gholamzadeh, Marsa Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh Ayyoubzadeh, Seyed Mohammad |
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description | BACKGROUND: COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic, affecting most countries worldwide. Digital health information technologies can be applied in three aspects, namely digital patients, digital devices, and digital clinics, and could be useful in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: Recent reviews have examined the role of digital health in controlling COVID-19 to identify the potential of digital health interventions to fight the disease. However, this study aims to review and analyze the digital technology that is being applied to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of the disease. METHODS: For this review, the Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were searched in August 2020 to retrieve publications from December 2019 to March 15, 2020. Furthermore, the Google search engine was used to identify additional applications of digital health for COVID-19 pandemic control. RESULTS: We included 32 papers in this review that reported 37 digital health applications for COVID-19 control. The most common digital health projects to address COVID-19 were telemedicine visits (11/37, 30%). Digital learning packages for informing people about the disease, geographic information systems and quick response code applications for real-time case tracking, and cloud- or mobile-based systems for self-care and patient tracking were in the second rank of digital tool applications (all 7/37, 19%). The projects were deployed in various European countries and in the United States, Australia, and China. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the potential of available information technologies worldwide in the 21st century, particularly in developed countries, it appears that more digital health products with a higher level of intelligence capability remain to be applied for the management of pandemics and health-related crises. |
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spelling | pubmed-79510532021-03-17 Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review R Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz Deldar, Kolsoum Gholamzadeh, Marsa Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh Ayyoubzadeh, Seyed Mohammad J Med Internet Res Review BACKGROUND: COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has become a global pandemic, affecting most countries worldwide. Digital health information technologies can be applied in three aspects, namely digital patients, digital devices, and digital clinics, and could be useful in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE: Recent reviews have examined the role of digital health in controlling COVID-19 to identify the potential of digital health interventions to fight the disease. However, this study aims to review and analyze the digital technology that is being applied to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the 10 countries with the highest prevalence of the disease. METHODS: For this review, the Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases were searched in August 2020 to retrieve publications from December 2019 to March 15, 2020. Furthermore, the Google search engine was used to identify additional applications of digital health for COVID-19 pandemic control. RESULTS: We included 32 papers in this review that reported 37 digital health applications for COVID-19 control. The most common digital health projects to address COVID-19 were telemedicine visits (11/37, 30%). Digital learning packages for informing people about the disease, geographic information systems and quick response code applications for real-time case tracking, and cloud- or mobile-based systems for self-care and patient tracking were in the second rank of digital tool applications (all 7/37, 19%). The projects were deployed in various European countries and in the United States, Australia, and China. CONCLUSIONS: Considering the potential of available information technologies worldwide in the 21st century, particularly in developed countries, it appears that more digital health products with a higher level of intelligence capability remain to be applied for the management of pandemics and health-related crises. JMIR Publications 2021-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7951053/ /pubmed/33600344 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19473 Text en ©Sharareh R Niakan Kalhori, Kambiz Bahaadinbeigy, Kolsoum Deldar, Marsa Gholamzadeh, Sadrieh Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Seyed Mohammad Ayyoubzadeh. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 10.03.2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Review R Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh Bahaadinbeigy, Kambiz Deldar, Kolsoum Gholamzadeh, Marsa Hajesmaeel-Gohari, Sadrieh Ayyoubzadeh, Seyed Mohammad Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title | Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title_full | Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title_short | Digital Health Solutions to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic in Countries With High Disease Prevalence: Literature Review |
title_sort | digital health solutions to control the covid-19 pandemic in countries with high disease prevalence: literature review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7951053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33600344 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19473 |
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