COVID-19 and applications of smartphone technology in the current pandemic
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2020Author
Iyengar, Karthikeyan
Upadhyaya, Gaurav K.
Vaishya, Raju
Jain, Vijay
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Background: With restrictions on face to face clinical consultations in the COVID-19 pandemic and the
challenges faced by health care systems in delivering patient care, alternative information technologies
like telemedicine and smartphone are playing a key role.
Aims: We assess the role and applications of smartphone technology as an extension of telemedicine in
provide continuity of care to our patients and surveillance during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We have done a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords on the search
engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first week of May 2020.
Results: Through the published literature on this topic, we discuss role, common applications and its
support in extended role of telemedicine technology in several aspects of current COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion: Smartphone technology on its own and as extension of telemedicine has significant applications in the current COVID-19 pandemic. As the smartphone technology further evolves with fifth
generation cellular network expansion, it is going to play a key role in future of health medicine, patient
referral, consultation, ergonomics and many other extended applications of health care.
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COVID-19; Coronavirus; Pandemic; Telemedicine; Smartphone; Disease outbreaksLink to resource
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