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

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 h...

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Published in:JMIR public health and surveillance 2020-04, Vol.6 (2), p.e18980-e18980
Main Authors: Mahmood, Sultan, Hasan, Khaled, Colder Carras, Michelle, Labrique, Alain
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Betacoronavirus
Capacity Building
Civil Defense
Contact Tracing
Coronavirus
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
COVID-19
Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
Global Health
Humans
Infection Control
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Public Health
Public Health Surveillance
Remote Sensing Technology
SARS-CoV-2
Telemedicine
Viewpoint
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2369-2960
2369-2960
DOI:10.2196/18980