The Use of Digital Health in the Detection and Management of COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshari Alwashmi
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
The Way

UNSTRUCTURED Digital health is uniquely positioned to transform the way we detect and manage infectious diseases. This viewpoint explores the potential of implementing digital technologies that can be used at different stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, including data-driven disease surveillance, screening, triage, diagnosis, and monitoring. Methods that could potentially reduce the exposure of healthcare providers to the virus are also discussed.

scholarly journals The Use of Digital Health in the Detection and Management of COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshari F. Alwashmi
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
The Way

Digital health is uniquely positioned to enhance the way we detect and manage infectious diseases. This commentary explores the potential of implementing digital technologies that can be used at different stages of the COVID-19 outbreak, including data-driven disease surveillance, screening, triage, diagnosis, and monitoring. Methods that could potentially reduce the exposure of healthcare providers to the virus are also discussed.

scholarly journals Implementations of digital technologies in COVID -19 pandemic and other health threats: multi nationals responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. e172101421776
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Pathak ◽  
Tara Gaire ◽  
Alphonse Laya ◽  
Alessandra Paula Ferreira Moreira Neumann ◽  
Mônica de Souza Brito Conti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Care Management ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Treatment And Diagnosis ◽  
Monitoring Information

COVID-19 has created enormous challenges for health systems around the world. An immense range of digital health technologies has been considered as strategies. The aim of this article is to describe the implementation of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic in prevention, diagnosis and treatment globally. Relevant articles published electronically in English using the following terms "COVID-19", "2019-nCov", "coronavirus", terminologies, "severe acute respiratory syndrome 2", SARS-CoV-2", "access to digital health, telemedicine and e-health, challenges and opportunities, in different data sources were researched. A total of 455 articles were found, and 46 published articles about prevention, treatment, and diagnosis approaches were selected. Digital technologies were useful in holistic control, care management and prevention, digital information, data collection, transfer and storage, frontline protection, risk reduction, analysis and adequate system of monitoring information during the pandemic situation, applying teleservice, consultations to specialists via online/offline, intelligent health system, which decreased the burden of patients to health professionals in institutions. In addition, it helped provide safe, rapidly and adequate patient data; and to avoid contamination for healthcare providers, the general population and patients. Still, the use of digital technologies in health is insufficient in many countries. It is essential to expand alternative ways of adapting digital technologies in health practices, but also to implement other studies on the use of digital health technologies beyond the focus on COVID-19.

scholarly journals Digital Civics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Shelton
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

This chapter reviews some of the key ways that civic engagement and public participation have become increasingly digitized and data-driven. But rather than engaging in debates over the democratic potential of digital technologies, it’s arguably more productive to look at the range of ways that this emerging ‘digital civics’ is reconfiguring how we conceptualize and practice citizenship in the era of big data. The chapter first turns to discussing how citizenship is increasingly defined in relation to data and data practices, and how these redefinitions have precipitated larger changes in the way citizenship is conceptualized and operationalized. Second, the chapter identifies three ongoing, interrelated changes to the digital civics landscape that are worthy of greater attention moving forward. These include the spatialization of digital civics, the corporatization of digital civics, and the growing prominence of oppositional uses of digital civics that seek to challenge the social and political status quo.

AVADAR Application: a learning model for designing a mobile-based disease surveillance system using participatory community reporting in Africa (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Godwin Akpan ◽  
Johnson Muluh Ticha ◽  
Lara M.F. Paige ◽  
Daniel Rasheed Oyaole ◽  
Patrick Briand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Acceptance Testing ◽  
Surveillance Strategy ◽  
Design And Implementation

BACKGROUND Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance is the bedrock of polio case detection. The Auto Visual AFP Detection and Reporting (AVADAR) is a digital health intervention designed as a supplemental community surveillance system. OBJECTIVE This paper describes the design and implementation process that made AVADAR a successful disease surveillance strategy at the community level. METHODS This paper outlines the methods for the design and implementation of the AVADAR application. It explains the co-design of the application, the implementation of a helpdesk support structure, the process involved in trouble shooting the application, the benefits of utilizing a closed user group for telecommunication requirements, and the use of a consented video. We also describe how these features combined led to user acceptance testing using black box methodology. RESULTS A total of 198 community informants across two provinces, four districts and 32 settlements were interviewed about application performance, usability, security, load, stress and functionality testing black box components. The responses showed most community participants giving positive reviews. Data from the Blackbox testing yielded optimum acceptance ratings from over 90% of the users involved in the testing. A total of 22380 AFP Alerts were sent out by community informants and 21589 (95%) were investigated by health workers or WHO AVADAR coordinators. Overall there was 93% assimilation at regional level. About 83% of investigations were done in the vicinity of the alerts in 2018 compared to 77% in 2017. CONCLUSIONS AVADAR implementation model offers a simplistic step by step model that includes community participation as an integral tool for the successful deployment of a mobile based surveillance reporting tool. AVADAR can be a veritable source of project planning data and a mobile application for other interventions that target using community participation to influence health outcomes.

scholarly journals Primary Care Guidelines for the Management of Persons Infected With HIV: 2013 Update by the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. e1-e34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Aberg ◽  
Joel E. Gallant ◽  
Khalil G. Ghanem ◽  
Patricia Emmanuel ◽  
Barry S. Zingman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Antiretroviral Drugs ◽  
New Information ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Care Guidelines ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines ◽  
Specific Health

Abstract Evidence-based guidelines for the management of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) were prepared by an expert panel of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. These updated guidelines replace those published in 2009. The guidelines are intended for use by healthcare providers who care for HIV-infected patients. Since 2009, new antiretroviral drugs and classes have become available, and the prognosis of persons with HIV infection continues to improve. However, with fewer complications and increased survival, HIV-infected persons are increasingly developing common health problems that also affect the general population. Some of these conditions may be related to HIV infection itself or its treatment. HIV-infected persons should be managed and monitored for all relevant age- and sex-specific health problems. New information based on publications from the period 2009–2013 has been incorporated into this document.

Preprocedural mouth rinses for preventing transmission of infectious diseases through aerosols in dental healthcare providers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumanth Kumbargere Nagraj ◽  
Prashanti Eachempati ◽  
Martha Paisi ◽  
Mona Nasser ◽  
Gowri Sivaramakrishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Mouth Rinses

scholarly journals Literature review on business prototypes for digital platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrutika Mishra ◽  
A. R. Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Way

Abstract In today’s world, many digitally enabled start-ups are budding all over the globe because of the fast enhancement in digital technologies. For the establishment of new business, it is necessary to adopt a proper business model which needs to define the way in which the company will provide values and the ways in which the customers can pay for their services. This paper aims to study the various business models being used in today’s marketplace and to provide a better understanding for these business models by having an insight on the attributes.

scholarly journals A technology-assisted life of recovery from psychosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dror Ben-Zeev ◽  
Benjamin Buck ◽  
Sarah Kopelovich ◽  
Suzanne Meller
Keyword(s):  
Early Detection ◽  
Symptom Management ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
Illness Management ◽  
Illness Management And Recovery ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Health Innovations ◽  
Schizophrenia Spectrum

Abstract Developments in digital health technologies have the potential to expedite and strengthen the path towards recovery for people with psychosis. This perspective piece provides a snapshot of how a range of digital technologies can be deployed to support a young adult’s efforts to cope with schizophrenia-spectrum illness. In conjunction with a day in the life of this individual, we provide examples of innovations in digital health research designed for this clinical population, as well as brief summaries of the evidence supporting the usability, feasibility, or effectiveness of each approach. From early detection to ongoing symptom management and vocational rehabilitation, this day-in-the-life vignette provides an overview of the ways in which digital health innovations could be used in concert to augment, scaffold, and enhance schizophrenia-spectrum illness management and recovery.

How to turn managers into data-driven decision makers

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 553-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Daniel André Carillo ◽  
Nadine Galy ◽  
Cameron Guthrie ◽  
Anne Vanhems
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Instrument ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
Business World ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Attitudes Toward Statistics ◽  
Attitude Toward Business ◽  
Professional Contexts ◽  
The Way

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the need to engender a positive attitude toward business analytics in order for firms to more effectively transform into data-driven businesses, and for business schools to better prepare future managers. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops and validates a measurement instrument that captures the attitude toward business statistics, the foundation of business analytics. A multi-stage approach is implemented and the validation is conducted with a sample of 311 students from a business school. Findings The instrument has strong psychometric properties. It is designed so that it can be easily extrapolated to professional contexts and extended to the entire domain of business analytics. Research limitations/implications As the advent of a data-driven business world will impact the way organizations function and the way individuals think, work, communicate and interact, it is crucial to engage a transdisciplinary dialogue among domains that have the expertise to help train and transform current and future professionals. Practical implications The contribution provides educators and organizations with a means to measure and monitor attitudes toward statistics, the most anxiogenic component of business analytics. This is a first step in monitoring and developing an analytics mindset in both managers and students. Originality/value By demonstrating how the advent of the data-driven business era is transforming the DNA and functioning of organizations, this paper highlights the key importance of changing managers’ and all employees’ (to a lesser extent) mindset and way of thinking.

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