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Article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7388036/

What were the roles and capabilities of health technology and informatics in the COVID-19 pandemic?
Elaborate.

Roles & Capabilities of Health Technology and Informatics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

1) Health Information Acquisition and Data Analysis Application

The usage of systems centered on disease prevention and control information systems and an adoption
of an online pandemic information reporting will help establish real-time pandemic tracking, prediction
and screening. 

2) Telehealth Services

With the usage of health information technologies, services such as remote consultation, control
guidance and prevention become available for healthcare providers while services for diagnosis and
treatment, online counseling, home medical observation and pneumonitis guidelines become available
for COVID-19 patients. Also, incorporating internet use in hospitals provide: rediagnosis of diseases and
medication services online and reduces the risk of infection spread for patients who would normally go
to hospitals and clinics for consultations.

3) Scientific Popularization and Real-Time Information Disclosure

This enables the timely access of information and aids in COVID-19 education and prevention. It also
helps the public train and educate themselves for self-protection, regarding COVID-19 diagnosis and
treatments.

4) Health Information System Deployment

It helps to improve network quality in hospitals in order to cater to the patient’s needs. It also enables
pandemic monitoring and analysis, virus tracing, patient tracking, personnel flow, and community
management with the usage of health care technologies such as internet platforms, big data, cloud
computing and AI.

- systems can aid in the following ways: reporting and monitoring human transmission information, data
assortment and analysis, tracking and sending alarms,

In order to provide strong support in pandemic prevention and control: investigation and judgment of
the pandemic will innovate diagnosis and treatment, improve service efficiency, and strengthen the
capacity of information technology to support pandemic prevention and control
What were the health technology applications and digital Service Practices that were utilized during the
pandemic and how they were maximized?

Health Technology Applications and Digital Service Practices Used in the Pandemic

1) Artificial intelligence (AI)

AIs have been effective in the pandemic because it has a capacity to build intelligence monitoring
platforms and develop algorithms has helped detect and predict the spread of viruses in pandemic
situations, use of its medical imaging technology (tagging of medical image samples) and the
incorporating training, learning, and understanding algorithms helps clinical decision-making and
provides disinfection, food and medicine delivery services.

2) Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Telecommunications Technology

Telehealth incorporates the functions of telemedicine and a variety of nonclinical services like tele-
pharmacy and tele-nursing

- With the improvement of network quality and level of technical knowledge as well as the advancement
in telecommunication technologies, video imaging, 5G, and other technologies in the current years has
helped expanded the services provided by telehealth. Telehealth is no longer limited to simple online
and telephone consultation but has expanded to provide remote services such as expert consultation
and medical education to be possible in resource-deficient areas through the usage of the internet. It
also helps doctors from different areas come together and discuss the patient's diagnosis and treatment
plan online.

* Connect the remote mobile workstation beside the patient’s bed, and real-time video meetings can
be carried out so that the experts can observe the actual situation of the patient.

* Remote diagnosis through internet technology and big data enables patients to perform imaging and
electrocardiogram examinations at township-level hospitals, and doctors at grassroots hospitals can
transmit information to their superiors via the internet.
- It helps doctors manage suspected COVID-19 patients and provide virtual consultations, enables
doctors to access electronic health records remotely through their platform, enables examination
equipment like x-ray, ultrasounds or CT scans to digitize results via image diagnosis systems, enables
real-time transmission and detection of physiological data of critical patients to monitoring center

- Remote consultation also helps lower the risk of spreading infection and lowers the usage of PPEs
which is of shortage

- Imp: improved health quality, efficacy, efficiency, and saved expenses

3) 5g

- the latest generation of cellular mobile communication technology, which has enabled decides to
connect together virtuality as it has larger a bandwidth, higher rate, lower delay, and larger connection.

- Hospital: Provides medical data and high-quality 3D image transmission (computed tomography scan
images), supports real-time health data exchanging as it helps health care providers instant access to
patients’ diagnosis records, medical history, and lab results without the troubles of delay and
information transmission barriers, real-time remote telemedicine meeting and patient consultation
helps provide patient diagnosis and treatment through real-time high-definition audio and video
connection, improve healthcare accessibility as it helps gather clinical data from various locations, usage
of electronic health information system helps whole medical order process which decreases the risks of
medical errors and improves the quality of health care and system management.

- improve the efficiency of medical emergency rescue and the response ability at public health events;
make diagnosis and treatment more efficient, convenient, and safe; unnecessary contact between
health care providers and patients may be reduced.

- high-speed, large-capacity, and low-latency of the 5G network accelerate achieving the needs of real-
time, high efficiency, and stability of the remote consultation

- COVID: helps connect doctors around the world, actively taking advantage of online diagnosis and
treatment; carrying out online consultation, health science popularization, psychological assistance
counseling, and home isolation guidance services such as delivery of medicines for chronic diseases; and
enabling patients to receive health care without leaving home, all of which will reduce the risk of being
exposed to the virus

4) Internet of Things (IoT)

- Remote monitoring [36] based on IoT is an effective way to assist in achieving real-time, continuous,
and long-term monitoring of patient vital signs and transfers the acquired health data or critical alarm
information to health care professionals.

- Remote monitoring [36] based on IoT is an effective way to assist in achieving real-time, continuous,
and long-term monitoring of patient vital signs and transfers the acquired health data or critical alarm
information to health care professionals.

- COVID: Usage of smart device electrocardiographs, ventilators, and sphygmomanometers help collect
physiological indicators of COVID patients which could be sent back instantaneously via the network or
Bluetooth. This patient data can then be used for analysis in the clinical decision support system wherein
when it detects abnormal data it signals doctor to investigate the situation according to the abnormal
detection.

5) Mobile Health Apps

COVID: Coronavirus tracking apps helps collect, gather, and share patient-generated health data as well
as identify high- and potential-risk groups, which in effect, helps conduct conducting accurate
investigations, prevention, and monitoring

- When they enter personal information, they will be able to detect if had any contact with COVID-19
patients. Entering their numbers will help health officials contact COVID-19 patients. It also helps
analyzes and alarm users if they get closer to others from the preferred social distance range.

- Proper usage of data technology in terms of patient-generated health data aims to help increase the
quality of public health emergency government. When privacy data protection tools, such as blockchain
technologies that provide strict privacy regulations, it will be able to protect the public's personal
information and private data.

6) Big Data

It can provide powerful data support for the prevention and control of the pandemic.

It can provide the public and decision makers with more complete, continuous, accurate, and timely
pandemic prevention information and traceable disease source-based method, analyze the movement
trajectory of affected persons via big data technology along with geographic location and time stamp
information, big data technology along with geographic location and time stamp information
FINAL

1.

a) Health Information Acquisition and Data Analysis Application: Disease prevention and control
information systems that adopt online pandemic information reporting which establishes real-time
pandemic tracking, prediction and screening.

b) Telehealth Services: Remote consultation, control guidance and prevention become available for
healthcare providers; diagnosis and treatment services, online counseling, home medical observation
and COVID-19 education become available patients; internet use in hospitals provides rediagnosis of
diseases and medication services and reduces the face-to-face consultations

c) Scientific Popularization and Real-Time Information Disclosure: Enables timely information access,
provides COVID-19 education and prevention to help the train the public for self-protection.

d) Health Information System Deployment: Helps improve network quality in hospitals, enables
pandemic monitoring and analysis, virus tracing, patient tracking, personnel flow, and community
management by using health care technologies like internet platforms, big data, cloud computing and
AI.

2.

a. AIs: Capacity to build intelligence monitoring platforms, develop algorithms to gdetect virus spread,
helps clinical decision-making via medical imaging technology (medical image tagging) and provides
disinfection, food and medicine delivery services.

b. Telemedicine, Telehealth, and Telecommunications Technology: Provide virtual consultations, helps

doctors manage suspected COVID-19 patients, enables access EHRs remotely and examination
equipment digitize results via image diagnosis systems.

c. 5g: Helps carry out online consultations, connects doctors around the world to engage in diagnosis
and treatment, enables patients to receive health care without leaving their homes.

4. Internet of Things: Helps real-time, continuous, and long-term monitoring of patient vital signs via
smart devices (electrocardiographs, ventilators, sphygmomanometers) that collect physiological
indicators and sent them back instantaneously via the network to health care professionals.

5. Mobile Health Apps: Provides tracking apps to collect, gather, and share patient-generated health
data, identify high-risk groups, conduct accurate investigations, prevention, and monitoring.

6. Big Data: Provides powerful data support to prevent and control the pandemic.