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Global preparedness against COVID-19: we must leverage the power of digital health
Sultan Mahmood;
Khaled Hasan;
Michelle Colder Carras;
Alain B Labrique
ABSTRACT
The 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, empowering 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 yet have a substantive impact on the immediate and distal consequences of COVID-19.
Citation
Please cite as:
Mahmood S, Hasan K, Colder Carras M, Labrique AB
Global Preparedness Against COVID-19: We Must Leverage the Power of Digital Health