The Essential Role of Technology in the Public Health Battle Against COVID-19.
Technology has played an important role in responding to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. The virus's blend of lethality and transmissibility have challenged officials and exposed critical limitations of the traditional public health apparatus. However, throughout...
| Publicado en: | Population Health Management Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 361 - 368 |
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Oct2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=146245887&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 146245887 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 19427891 8765 jtl: Population Health Management issn: 19427891 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2020 vid: 23 iid: 5 pid: 1365 pub: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. place: New Rochelle, New York artinfo: ui: 146245887 10.1089/pop.2020.0187 146245887 ppf: 361 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: The Essential Role of Technology in the Public Health Battle Against COVID-19. aug: au: Uohara, Michael Y. Weinstein, James N. Rhew, David C. affil: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, USA. sug: subj: Technology Public Health Population Health COVID-19 Pandemic Artificial Intelligence COVID-19 Disease Transmission Prevention and Control Privacy and Confidentiality Diffusion Job Re-Entry Teamwork ab: Technology has played an important role in responding to the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. The virus's blend of lethality and transmissibility have challenged officials and exposed critical limitations of the traditional public health apparatus. However, throughout this pandemic, technology has answered the call for a new form of public health that illustrates opportunities for enhanced agility, scale, and responsiveness. The authors share the Microsoft perspective and illustrate how technology has helped transform the public health landscape with new and refined capabilities – the efficacy and impact of which will be determined by history. Technologies like chatbot and virtualized patient care offer a mechanism to triage and distribute care at scale. Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing have accelerated research into understanding the virus and developing targeted therapeutics to treat infection and prevent transmission. New mobile contact tracing protocols that preserve patient privacy and civil liberties were developed in response to public concerns, creating new opportunities for privacy-sensitive technologies that aid efforts to prevent and control outbreaks. While much progress is still needed, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted technology's importance to public health security and pandemic preparedness. Future multi-stakeholder collaborations, including those with technology organizations, are needed to facilitate progress in overcoming the current pandemic, setting the stage for improved pandemic preparedness in the future. As lessons are assessed from the current pandemic, public officials should consider technology's role and continue to seek opportunities to supplement and improve on traditional approaches. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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