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Social Distancing and Quarantine as COVID-19 Control Remedy
Published in Hanadi Talal Ahmedah, Muhammad Riaz, Sagheer Ahmed, Marius Alexandru Moga, The Covid-19 Pandemic, 2023
Adeel Ahmad, Muhammad Hussaan, Fatima Batool, Sahar Mumtaz, Nagina Rehman, Samina Yaqoob, Humaira Kausar
The Chinese National Health Commission (NHC) has issued an Emergency Response Plan for COVID-19, which guides the civil society to perform psychiatric treatments in pneumonia caused by a new virus. In this regard, the National Mental Health Association and the Academic Association have prepared a team of professors and promoted top-level content training courses in the form of videos and published articles. Sections, such as health professors, are present in the population-like adults. Moreover, digital numbers can be used to treat persons affected by the current disease [48]. Thus, it is clearly appropriate to construct an action to reduce the depression rate to fulfill people’s requirements affected by coronavirus [37]. Therefore, it is indispensable for other countries to push for the issuance of regulations to regulate the implementation and distribution of mental health services to ensure individuals are supervised by experts, reducing the period of human integration at the time of leaving. The potential benefits of isolation and quarantine need to be weighed carefully against the possible mental costs. Successful use of quarantine measures as a public health measure requires us to limit the possible negative impacts of it.
Partnerships and Collaborations
Published in Kelly H. Zou, Lobna A. Salem, Amrit Ray, Real-World Evidence in a Patient-Centric Digital Era, 2023
Salman Rizvi, Urooj A. Siddiqui
In a post-pandemic or an endemic world, the coordination between the public and private sector is pivotal to tackling NCDs. Learnings from the COVID-19 situation have presented opportunities to manage NCDs by leveraging digital health technologies and telemedicine. These solutions will enable access to healthcare resources and services, educational information as well as virtual monitoring from healthcare professionals. The implementation of this model will require a concerted effort from the public and private sector, including organizing awareness and education campaigns, providing access to digital tools to communicate with healthcare professionals, improving healthcare communication to the public and access to local support activities (Palmer et al., 2020).
Healthcare Data Ownership and Privacy: A Perspective for Digital Therapeutics
Published in Oleksandr Sverdlov, Joris van Dam, Digital Therapeutics, 2023
Ximena Benavides, Greg Licholai
Two decades ago, Seth R. Frank argued in “Digital Health Care—The Convergence of Health Care and the Internet” that interactive media and associated applications would benefit the health care economy (Frank, 2000). He suggested that digital health—largely speaking, the intersection between technology and health—would realize the promise of reducing unnecessary medical services and promote cost-effectiveness while empowering patients. DTx products would offer consumers the possibility of managing their health problems that otherwise might not directly benefit from an in-person encounter with a health professional. Today, health apps are ubiquitous in our digital world. More than 318,000 are already available, and over 200 are added each day.2 However, only a fraction of these health apps meets the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) medium to high-risk scrutiny bar and, still, represent a largely unregulated to insufficiently regulated space in digital health.
Digital health technology used in emergency large-scale vaccination campaigns in low- and middle-income countries: a narrative review for improved pandemic preparedness
Published in Expert Review of Vaccines, 2023
Paula Mc Kenna, Lindsay A. Broadfield, Annik Willems, Serge Masyn, Theresa Pattery, Ruxandra Draghia-Akli
Vaccination campaigns should always aim to include all populations, even those who have limited or no access to mobile phones and internet, which remains an issue for several communities. The support from telecommunication companies to provide global coverage at affordable rates, even in remote areas, will allow for increased adoption of digital health tools and access to more vulnerable communities with previously limited access to health care. For example, the telecom operator Orange partnered with Gavi to provide off-grid renewable electricity generation, storage systems, and internet connectivity for rural health facilities, addressing a need for infrastructure [42]. Such strategic partnerships can provide access to hard- and software systems needed to successfully launch a digital health tool for large-scale vaccination campaigns responding to a new outbreak.
Advancing towards a worldwide healthcare system in the post-COVID-19 era: benefits and barriers to international collaboration in healthcare
Published in Journal of Medical Economics, 2023
Furthermore, developing trust between countries is paramount for successful international health collaboration. This can be accomplished through long-term partnerships, joint funding mechanisms and shared decision-making processes. Effective leadership and governance are essential to breaking down barriers to international health collaboration14, while investing in technology and innovation can help remove logistical hurdles that stand in the way. For instance, the use of telemedicine and digital health technologies can enable healthcare professionals to share knowledge and expertise across borders, offering remote access to medical care for underserved communities. Lastly, public education and awareness campaigns can help break down cultural barriers to international healthcare collaboration17.
The use of digital health in heart rhythm care
Published in Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 2023
Donald P. Tchapmi, Chris Agyingi, Antoine Egbe, Gregory M. Marcus, Jean Jacques Noubiap
Digital health technologies, such as wearable devices and smartphone apps, can contribute to diagnostics, heart rhythm monitoring, patient education and shared decision making, management, medication adherence, and research. There is evidence that these digital health tools can improve various health outcomes, including in the field of arrhythmia. Digital health technologies play a pivotal role in diagnosing and monitoring arrhythmias. Besides conventional heart rhythm monitoring devices such as Holter, telemetry, external and internal loop recorders, new handheld devices, wearables patches, smartphones, and smartwatches offer opportunities for arrhythmia screening, especially in low-risk individuals. Smartphone applications have also been developed for the education of patients, to assist them in decision making, and to improve their management, including medication adherence, preprocedural planning, and patient rehabilitation. Digital health technologies also bring unprecedented opportunities for large-scale studies in the population and clinical settings. Despite these remarkable advances, important challenges remain in integrating digital health technologies into healthcare systems. Some of these challenges include insufficient data regarding optimal integration to positively affect clinically relevant outcomes, concerns about patient privacy, system interoperability, physician liability for assessing data provided by wearables, difficulties in analyzing real-time information from wearables and incorporating them into electronic medical records, and reimbursement for digital health services.