Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Apr 19, 2020
Open Peer Review Period: Jan 28, 2021 - Mar 28, 2021
Date Accepted: Aug 31, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Feb 18, 2021
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Review Study of Digital Health-related Solutions to Control COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis for the 10 Highest Prevalent Countries
ABSTRACT
Background:
The new coronavirus COVID-19 as a case of pneumonia becomes a global pandemic, affecting most of the countries around the world. digital health as information technologies that can be applied in three aspects including digital patients, digital devices, and digital clinics could help against this pandemic.
Objective:
Recent reviews examine the role of digital health in controlling COVID-19 with the objective of identifying the potential of digital health to fight disease however this study is aimed to review and analyze applied information technology and strategies to control the COVID-19 pandemic in ten countries with the highest prevalence of the disease in April the first 2020.
Methods:
For this review, Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases were searched in April 2020 to retrieve publications from December 2019 to 31 March 2020. Furthermore, Google search engine was also investigated to identify additional applications of digital health for COVID-19 pandemic control.
Results:
Ten papers were included in this review. Most of the studies were conducted in China. The digital tools were mostly aimed at distributing widespread information and tracking real-time transmissions. Most of the papers were considered the whole population in their researches. prevention has been the most popular objective for controlling the disease in the papers followed by screening.
Conclusions:
Having considered the potential of available information technologies across the world in the 21st century, particularly in developed countries, it seems that more digital health products have remained to be applied for viral infection and other health crisis management.
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