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Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience

COVID-19 poses a significant burden to healthcare systems. Healthcare organisations with better health innovation infrastructures have faced a reduced burden and achieved success in curbing COVID-19. In Saudi Arabia, digital technologies have played a vital role in fighting SARS-CoV-2 transmission....

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Autores principales: Alghamdi, Saeed M., Alsulayyim, Abdullah S., Alqahtani, Jaber S., Aldhahir, Abdulelah M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828563
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111517
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author Alghamdi, Saeed M.
Alsulayyim, Abdullah S.
Alqahtani, Jaber S.
Aldhahir, Abdulelah M.
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description COVID-19 poses a significant burden to healthcare systems. Healthcare organisations with better health innovation infrastructures have faced a reduced burden and achieved success in curbing COVID-19. In Saudi Arabia, digital technologies have played a vital role in fighting SARS-CoV-2 transmission. In this paper, we aimed to summarise the experience of optimising digital health technologies in Saudi Arabia as well as to discuss capabilities and opportunities during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. A literature search was conducted up to September 2021 to document the experience of using DHTPs in Saudi Arabia in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We also considered any published data, press briefings, and announcements by the MOH in Saudi Arabia. The findings were synthesised in narrative form. Health officials succeeded in optimising and maintaining a strategy to mitigate the spread of the virus via different digital technologies, such as mobile health applications, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The quick digital response in Saudi Arabia was facilitated by governmental support and by considering users and technology determinants. Future research must concentrate on establishing and updating the guidelines for using DHTPs.
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spelling pubmed-86187722021-11-27 Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience Alghamdi, Saeed M. Alsulayyim, Abdullah S. Alqahtani, Jaber S. Aldhahir, Abdulelah M. Healthcare (Basel) Communication COVID-19 poses a significant burden to healthcare systems. Healthcare organisations with better health innovation infrastructures have faced a reduced burden and achieved success in curbing COVID-19. In Saudi Arabia, digital technologies have played a vital role in fighting SARS-CoV-2 transmission. In this paper, we aimed to summarise the experience of optimising digital health technologies in Saudi Arabia as well as to discuss capabilities and opportunities during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. A literature search was conducted up to September 2021 to document the experience of using DHTPs in Saudi Arabia in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We also considered any published data, press briefings, and announcements by the MOH in Saudi Arabia. The findings were synthesised in narrative form. Health officials succeeded in optimising and maintaining a strategy to mitigate the spread of the virus via different digital technologies, such as mobile health applications, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. The quick digital response in Saudi Arabia was facilitated by governmental support and by considering users and technology determinants. Future research must concentrate on establishing and updating the guidelines for using DHTPs. MDPI 2021-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8618772/ /pubmed/34828563 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111517 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_full Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_fullStr Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_full_unstemmed Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_short Digital Health Platforms in Saudi Arabia: Determinants from the COVID-19 Pandemic Experience
title_sort digital health platforms in saudi arabia: determinants from the covid-19 pandemic experience
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8618772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34828563
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare9111517
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