Open AccessNew Ways to Manage Pandemics: Using Technologies in the Era of COVID-19, a Narrative Review
Author(s) -
Ali Khaleghi,
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi,
Gila Pirzad Jahromi,
Hadi Zarafshan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iranian journal of psychiatry.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2008-2215
pISSN - 1735-4587
DOI - 10.18502/ijps.v15i3.3816
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , narrative review , emerging technologies , confidentiality , vagueness , health care , reimbursement , business , public relations , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , internet privacy , political science , medicine , computer security , disease , pathology , artificial intelligence , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , fuzzy logic
Objective: Health care systems and professionals worldwide are relying on technology as an essential partner to manage the COVID-19 epidemic. This paper explains how digital technologies can benefit the public, medical workers, and health care systems.
Method: This nonsystematic literature review was conducted on different technologies and their impact and applications in the COVID-19 epidemic using proper search keywords on the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct databases.
Results: We found various helpful technologies, which can help us to appropriately contain and manage the COVID-19 pandemic through broad areas of clinical care, logistics, maintenance of socioeconomic activities, and inspection. However, main challenges still need to be addressed for obtaining the full capacities of the technologies to support health care systems.
Conclusion: Technologies can offer many innovative ideas and solutions against global and local emergencies. In this time of great vagueness and danger, we require all the resources we can collect to rescue ourselves and our patients. Barriers and challenges, such as lack of technology proficiency, confidentiality requirements, and reimbursement matters, need to be recognized and resolved rapidly, accurately, and compassionately.