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Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic and the draconian measures applied to limit its spread have accelerated the process of digitalizing many activities, including those within the health sector. In Morocco, a developing country in northern Africa, digital health has been deployed extensively, and in a remarkable...

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Autores principales: El Otmani Dehbi, Zineb, Sedrati, Hayat, Chaqsare, Souad, Idrissi Azami, Abdellah, Merzouki, Mohamed, Raji, Mourad, Rhalem, Wajih, Al Idrissi, Najib, Nejjari, Chakib, Amzazi, Saaïd, Ghazal, Hassan
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8414562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34485221
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.690462
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author El Otmani Dehbi, Zineb
Sedrati, Hayat
Chaqsare, Souad
Idrissi Azami, Abdellah
Merzouki, Mohamed
Raji, Mourad
Rhalem, Wajih
Al Idrissi, Najib
Nejjari, Chakib
Amzazi, Saaïd
Ghazal, Hassan
author_facet El Otmani Dehbi, Zineb
Sedrati, Hayat
Chaqsare, Souad
Idrissi Azami, Abdellah
Merzouki, Mohamed
Raji, Mourad
Rhalem, Wajih
Al Idrissi, Najib
Nejjari, Chakib
Amzazi, Saaïd
Ghazal, Hassan
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description The COVID-19 pandemic and the draconian measures applied to limit its spread have accelerated the process of digitalizing many activities, including those within the health sector. In Morocco, a developing country in northern Africa, digital health has been deployed extensively, and in a remarkable way, to support the management of the current health crisis. Morocco is taking significant measures to become a key player in the process of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) goal 3. The government has comprehensively integrated digital technology throughout its coordinated containment and mitigation processes. These processes encompass testing and diagnostics; virus genomic surveillance; telecare of suspected and chronic patients; COVID-19 patient contact tracing and tracking; a laboratory information system for medical material dispatching, biological sample collection, and data processing nationwide; and smart vaccination management. Moreover, the pace of amending legislation for enabling efficient telemedicine practice has been achieved at a record-breaking. The successful implementation of all of these digital health strategies testify to the effectiveness of digitalization for managing the health aspects of the pandemic and for the future development of health systems in Morocco and in the African continent, where digital health and telemedicine is set to become the cornerstone of medical practice.
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spelling pubmed-84145622021-09-04 Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis El Otmani Dehbi, Zineb Sedrati, Hayat Chaqsare, Souad Idrissi Azami, Abdellah Merzouki, Mohamed Raji, Mourad Rhalem, Wajih Al Idrissi, Najib Nejjari, Chakib Amzazi, Saaïd Ghazal, Hassan Front Public Health Public Health The COVID-19 pandemic and the draconian measures applied to limit its spread have accelerated the process of digitalizing many activities, including those within the health sector. In Morocco, a developing country in northern Africa, digital health has been deployed extensively, and in a remarkable way, to support the management of the current health crisis. Morocco is taking significant measures to become a key player in the process of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) goal 3. The government has comprehensively integrated digital technology throughout its coordinated containment and mitigation processes. These processes encompass testing and diagnostics; virus genomic surveillance; telecare of suspected and chronic patients; COVID-19 patient contact tracing and tracking; a laboratory information system for medical material dispatching, biological sample collection, and data processing nationwide; and smart vaccination management. Moreover, the pace of amending legislation for enabling efficient telemedicine practice has been achieved at a record-breaking. The successful implementation of all of these digital health strategies testify to the effectiveness of digitalization for managing the health aspects of the pandemic and for the future development of health systems in Morocco and in the African continent, where digital health and telemedicine is set to become the cornerstone of medical practice. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC8414562/ /pubmed/34485221 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.690462 Text en Copyright © 2021 El Otmani Dehbi, Sedrati, Chaqsare, Idrissi Azami, Merzouki, Raji, Rhalem, Al Idrissi, Nejjari, Amzazi and Ghazal. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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El Otmani Dehbi, Zineb
Sedrati, Hayat
Chaqsare, Souad
Idrissi Azami, Abdellah
Merzouki, Mohamed
Raji, Mourad
Rhalem, Wajih
Al Idrissi, Najib
Nejjari, Chakib
Amzazi, Saaïd
Ghazal, Hassan
Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title_full Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title_fullStr Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title_full_unstemmed Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title_short Moroccan Digital Health Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
title_sort moroccan digital health response to the covid-19 crisis
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8414562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34485221
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.690462
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