The Riyadh Declaration: the role of digital health in fighting pandemics

Knawy, Bandar Al; Adil, Mahmood; Crooks, George; Rhee, Kyu; Bates, David W.; Jokhdar, Hani; Klag, Michael J.; Lee, Uichin; Mokdad, Ali H.; Schaper, Louise; Hazme, Raed Al; Khathaami, Ali M. Al; Abduljawad, Joud

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31978-4

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“…For example, the 2020 Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health provides priorities and recommendations for the global health community, raising ethical issues of data sharing, security, privacy and misinformation. 1 However, in addressing such issues the global environmental implications of digital health have been overlooked.…”

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“…There must be an imperative to make environmental considerations a key priority when developing and implementing digital health. Building on the 2020 Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, 1 it is recommended that environmental audits of digital health interventions accounting for environmental impacts of devices, data and computation, and telehealth centres are carried out. Green Information Technologies and ethical sourcing and disposal of devices should be adopted where possible.…”

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The Environmental Impacts of Digital Health

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2021

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Digital health interventions are widely celebrated due to their low-cost nature and ability to provide tailored person-centred care in communities worldwide. As coronavirus disease-19 has rapidly accelerated their growth and reach, interest in global ethical questions surrounding digital health is growing. However, the global environmental implications of digital health have been overlooked. This commentary draws attention to the environmental impacts of digital health devices and communication networks, as well as the data produced by digital health activities. Unless serious attention is paid to greening digital health practices, the rise of digital health will significantly contribute to environmental change, and thus create outcomes of ill-health.

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The Environmental Impacts of Digital Health

Thompson

2021

DIGITAL HEALTH

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“…On the 11th of August, Riyadh held the Global Digital Health Summit, where the 'Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health' was formulated and issued. The Declaration articulated seven key priorities and nine recommendations for data and digital health that need to be adopted by the global health community to address COVID-19 pandemic challenges, as well as preventing future pandemics [22], Table 1 highlights its key recommendations. On another instance, Saudi Arabia has chaired the 2020 G20 summit, where global subject matter experts pointed out the promise of digital health in the unprecedented times of COVID-19; which was evident in the G20 Riyadh Summit closing remarks [23].…”

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Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA)

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The unforeseen pandemic of COVID-19 forced all countries worldwide to appreciate digital solutions and their potential contributions in managing such outbreaks. Countries began to share their knowledge and ongoing experiences on how to employ the latest technologies to trace infected cases, warn people on potential danger, increase social and population awareness, and how to provide effective and efficient telehealth services. MENAHIA (The Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Association), established in 2018, as a new IMIA regional chapter which has started regional work in several areas of collaboration and knowledge sharing, particularly focused on the common basis of MENA countries’ needs towards health informatics solutions regarding COVID-19 crisis management. This article briefly presents health informatics activities and prospects by countries of the Region with a non-exclusive focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Needless to say, not all the countries have reported using this platform, and some may have reported through other venues.

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“…They feature prominently amongst measures that are being deployed globally, particularly in countries that have maintained low COVID-19 per-capita mortality rates such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Iceland and Australia [4][5][6]. The role of digital health was formally highlighted by the Riyadh Declaration which calls on the global health community to "create the infrastructure needed to share effective digital health evidence-based practices and high-quality, real-time data locally and globally to provide actionable information to more health systems and countries" [7]. The declaration usefully identifies seven priorities for digital health including health intelligence, scalability and interoperability, artificial intelligence, communication, data governance, quality and effectiveness of digital technology, and research and innovation.…”

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Managing Pandemic Responses with Health Informatics – Challenges for Assessing Digital Health Technologies

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Objectives: To highlight the role of technology assessment in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: An overview of existing research and evaluation approaches along with expert perspectives drawn from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Development in Health Informatics and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Working Group for Assessment of Health Information Systems. Results: Evaluation of digital health technologies for COVID-19 should be based on their technical maturity as well as the scale of implementation. For mature technologies like telehealth whose efficacy has been previously demonstrated, pragmatic, rapid evaluation using the complex systems paradigm which accounts for multiple sociotechnical factors, might be more suitable to examine their effectiveness and emerging safety concerns in new settings. New technologies, particularly those intended for use on a large scale such as digital contract tracing, will require assessment of their usability as well as performance prior to deployment, after which evaluation should shift to using a complex systems paradigm to examine the value of information provided. The success of a digital health technology is dependent on the value of information it provides relative to the sociotechnical context of the setting where it is implemented. Conclusion: Commitment to evaluation using the evidence-based medicine and complex systems paradigms will be critical to ensuring safe and effective use of digital health technologies for COVID-19 and future pandemics. There is an inherent tension between evaluation and the imperative to urgently deploy solutions that needs to be negotiated.

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The Riyadh Declaration: the role of digital health in fighting pandemics

Cited by 39 publications

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The Environmental Impacts of Digital Health

The Environmental Impacts of Digital Health

Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA)

Managing Pandemic Responses with Health Informatics – Challenges for Assessing Digital Health Technologies

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