2020
DOI: 10.5812/archcid.103649
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A Review of Mobile Health Applications in Epidemic and Pandemic Outbreaks: Lessons Learned for COVID-19

Abstract: Context: Using smart mobile devices, called mobile health (mHealth), facilitates providing health services, speeds up the process, and reduces the costs and complications of direct services. Also, mHealth has many capabilities and applications in epidemic and pandemic outbreaks. This study aimed to identify mHealth applications in epidemic/pandemic outbreaks and provide some suggestions for tackling COVID-19. Methods: To find the relevant studies, searches were done in PubMed and Scopus by related keywords dur… Show more

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“…In the primary healthcare context, it assisted the CHWs in sending real-time pandemic reports and data to the health systems as well as for showing patients their test results or guidelines issued by health systems and government. These findings corroborate several other mHealth studies conducted in the COVID-19 context (Verhagen et al, 2020;Aslani et al, 2020;Pai et al, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…In the primary healthcare context, it assisted the CHWs in sending real-time pandemic reports and data to the health systems as well as for showing patients their test results or guidelines issued by health systems and government. These findings corroborate several other mHealth studies conducted in the COVID-19 context (Verhagen et al, 2020;Aslani et al, 2020;Pai et al, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Studies from across the world suggest that mHealth can be of immense support during epidemic or pandemic outbreaks. Data management, educational programs, patient identification, diagnosis and treatment are some significant areas in which mHealth tools can be of use during such times (Aslani et al, 2020). Further, plenty of studies have reported the advantages of applying mHealth tools in the field of maternal and child health (Coleman et al, 2020;Ward et al, 2020), communicable diseases such as malaria (Rassi et al, 2018), HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) (Devi et al, 2015;Catalani et al, 2013), and NCDs such as asthma, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and diabetes (Liu et al, 2011;Feinberg et al, 2017;Krishna et al, 2009Kitsiou et al, 2017Shahid et al, 2015;Debong et al, 2019).…”
Section: Increased Significance Of Mhealthmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Recently, a study has briefly reviewed the uses of mHealth in the recent epidemic/pandemic outbreaks worldwide to learn some lessons on how to deal with COVID-19. [ 18 ]…”
Section: Mhealth Technology In Disease Preventionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I N recent pandemic (COVID- 19), due to the restriction on face to face clinical consultations, the usage of mobile health applications are increased [1]- [4]. Existing studies [2], [3] considered the usage of the mobile health application as the best choice in the patient-physician relationship in many ways e.g.,using in fever coach, detecting the disease based on obtained data from different locations. In the same manner, study [2] reviewed 223 COVID-19-related mobile apps and pointed out that only 19.9 percent mobile apps are found in the app store and 44.4 percent found in the Play Store.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%