Global preparedness against COVID-19: We must leverage the power of digital health

Sultan Mahmood; Khaled Hasan; Michelle Colder Carras; Alain Labrique

doi:10.2196/18980

Global preparedness against COVID-19: We must leverage the power of digital health

Sultan Mahmood, Khaled Hasan, Michelle Colder Carras, Alain Labrique

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	e18980
Journal	JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2196/18980
State	Published - Apr 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
Control
Developing countries
Global health
Infection
Informatics
Internet
Pandemic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Informatics

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