Document Type : Review
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Department of Management and Health Information Technology, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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School of Medical Management and Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
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Health Information Technology, Faculty of Management & Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan,Iran
10.30476/jhmi.2023.97211.1167
Abstract
Introduction: Coronavirus has become a global pandemic since early 2019. More than180 countries around the world are involved with COVID-19. One of the effective methods to monitor, detect, warn early, prevent, and control is Information Technology.
Methods: This study is a scoping review. This study aimed to describe the novel information technologies used during the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature was searched for types of information technologies on COVID-19 with the help of libraries, electronic databases (Scopus, PubMed, and Web of sciences), and search engines available at Google.
Results: In this study, three groups of telemedicine technologies including telediagnosis, telemonitoring, and teleconsultation were selected. In addition, several unique technologies such as artificial intelligence, smart wearable devices, big data, neural networks, robots, chatbots, close contact detectors, Internet of Things (IoT), smart drones, Electronic Health Records, and thermal scanners were included. More than 150 resources were collected, 68 of whom were selected based on their relevancy during 2021. The results showed that the role of modern technologies in healthcare systems monitoring was crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusion: Therefore, telemedicine is one of the solutions that has been equivalent to or even better than face-to-face medicine, and governments should better learn about the experiences of different countries in the use and their branches such as Telemonitoring, Teleconsultation, Telediagnosis along with enforcing laws to follow the protocols and vaccination of different groups of society to prevent the spread of the disease.
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