Global Preparedness Against COVID-19: We Must Leverage the Power of Digital Health

被引:116
作者
Mahmood, Sultan [1 ]
Hasan, Khaled [1 ]
Carras, Michelle Colder [2 ]
Labrique, Alain [2 ,3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Digital Healthcare Solut, Dhaka, Bangladesh
[2] Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Int Hlth, 615 N Wolfe St,W 5501, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA
[3] Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Epidemiol, Baltimore, MD USA
[4] Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Hlth Policy & Management, Baltimore, MD USA
关键词
informatics; global health; developing countries; internet; infection; control; COVID-19; pandemic; OUTBREAKS; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.2196/18980
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed many areas of public health preparedness that are lacking, especially in lower- and middle-income countries. Digital interventions provide many opportunities for strengthening health systems and could be vital resources in the current public health emergency. We provide several use cases for infection control, home-based diagnosis and screening, empowerment through information, public health surveillance and epidemiology, and leveraging crowd-sourced data. A thoughtful, concerted effort-leveraging existing experience and robust enterprise-grade technologies-can have a substantive impact on the immediate and distal consequences of COVID-19.
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