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The COVID-19 pandemic: an opportunity to integrate digital health solutions within healthcare ecosystems
Pol Pérez-Sust;
Oscar Solans Fernández;
Joan Carles Fajardo;
Manuel Medina;
Pepi Ródenas;
Jordi Gabaldà Azofra;
Luís García Eroles;
Adria Comella Carnice;
César Velasco Muñoz;
Josuè Sallent;
Rosa Roma Monfa;
Jordi Piera-Jiménez
ABSTRACT
Digital health technologies offer huge opportunities to reshape the healthcare system as we know it. From the adoption of electronic medical records to the mobile health applications and through every other disruptive technology, digital health solutions have promised a better quality of care at a more sustainable cost. However, the wide-scale adoption of these solutions is lacking behind. The most adverse scenarios often provide the opportunity to develop and test the capacity of digital health technologies to increase the efficiency of healthcare systems. Herein, we acknowledge the crucial role digital health solutions play during the COVID-19 global pandemic in support of public health policy, and we report on the strategies currently deployed at-scale during the outbreak in Catalonia (North-East Spain).
Citation
Please cite as:
Pérez-Sust P, Solans Fernández O, Fajardo JC, Medina M, Ródenas P, Gabaldà Azofra J, García Eroles L, Comella Carnice A, Velasco Muñoz C, Sallent J, Roma Monfa R, Piera-Jiménez J
Turning the Crisis Into an Opportunity: Digital Health Strategies Deployed During the COVID-19 Outbreak