TY - JOUR
T1 - Remote health diagnosis and monitoring in the time of COVID-19
AU - Behar, Joachim A.
AU - Liu, Chengyu
AU - Kotzen, Kevin
AU - Tsutsui, Kenta
AU - Corino, Valentina D.A.
AU - Singh, Janmajay
AU - Pimentel, Marco A.F.
AU - Warrick, Philip
AU - Zaunseder, Sebastian
AU - Andreotti, Fernando
AU - Sebag, David
AU - Kopanitsa, Georgy
AU - McSharry, Patrick E.
AU - Karlen, Walter
AU - Karmakar, Chandan
AU - Clifford, Gari D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
PY - 2020/11/10
Y1 - 2020/11/10
N2 - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is rapidly spreading across the globe. The clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia requires early detection and monitoring, within a clinical environment for critical cases and remotely for mild cases, with a large spectrum of symptoms. The fear of contamination in clinical environments has led to a dramatic reduction in on-site referrals for routine care. There has also been a perceived need to continuously monitor non-severe COVID-19 patients, either from their quarantine site at home, or dedicated quarantine locations (e.g. hotels). In particular, facilitating contact tracing with proximity and location tracing apps was adopted in many countries very rapidly. Thus, the pandemic has driven incentives to innovate and enhance or create new routes for providing healthcare services at distance. In particular, this has created a dramatic impetus to find innovative ways to remotely and effectively monitor patient health status. In this paper, we present a review of remote health monitoring initiatives taken in 20 states during the time of the pandemic. We emphasize in the discussion particular aspects that are common ground for the reviewed states, in particular the future impact of the pandemic on remote health monitoring and consideration on data privacy.
AB - Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is rapidly spreading across the globe. The clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia requires early detection and monitoring, within a clinical environment for critical cases and remotely for mild cases, with a large spectrum of symptoms. The fear of contamination in clinical environments has led to a dramatic reduction in on-site referrals for routine care. There has also been a perceived need to continuously monitor non-severe COVID-19 patients, either from their quarantine site at home, or dedicated quarantine locations (e.g. hotels). In particular, facilitating contact tracing with proximity and location tracing apps was adopted in many countries very rapidly. Thus, the pandemic has driven incentives to innovate and enhance or create new routes for providing healthcare services at distance. In particular, this has created a dramatic impetus to find innovative ways to remotely and effectively monitor patient health status. In this paper, we present a review of remote health monitoring initiatives taken in 20 states during the time of the pandemic. We emphasize in the discussion particular aspects that are common ground for the reviewed states, in particular the future impact of the pandemic on remote health monitoring and consideration on data privacy.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Digital health
KW - Remote health
KW - Telemedicine
KW - Pandemics
KW - Humans
KW - Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis
KW - Monitoring, Physiologic/methods
KW - Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis
KW - Telemedicine/methods
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096152701&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1361-6579/abba0a
DO - 10.1088/1361-6579/abba0a
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C2 - 32947271
AN - SCOPUS:85096152701
SN - 0967-3334
VL - 41
SP - 10TR01
JO - Physiological Measurement
JF - Physiological Measurement
IS - 10
M1 - 10TR01
ER -