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Mobile health applications during epidemic management in India: a review

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.5-10-2020.166546,
    author={Rajgourab Ghosh and Sanjeev Kumar},
    title={Mobile health applications during epidemic management in India: a review},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities},
    volume={5},
    number={13},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SC},
    year={2020},
    month={10},
    keywords={ICT, mHealth, smart cities, epidemic, disease surveillance},
    doi={10.4108/eai.5-10-2020.166546}
}
  • Rajgourab Ghosh
    Sanjeev Kumar
    Year: 2020
    Mobile health applications during epidemic management in India: a review
    SC
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.5-10-2020.166546
Rajgourab Ghosh1,*, Sanjeev Kumar2
  • 1: Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Kolkata, India
  • 2: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, India
*Contact email: rajgourav@hotmail.com

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Smart cities endeavour to provide a good quality of life to its inhabitants. The COVID-19 pandemic necessitates redrawing the framework of epidemic management in India. Information, Communication & Technology (ICT) solutions such as mobile health (mHealth) can complement this. OBJECTIVES: To review ICT and mHealth used for epidemic management in smart cities of India. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted to identify the use of ICT or mHealth applications for epidemic management in smart cities. A predefined search strategy and a predefined eligibility criterion to search for articles published in English on Medline were used. RESULTS: Our study showed ICT and mHealth use has increased during the recent COVID-19 pandemic in India and available solutions can be applied in smart city framework to improve epidemic management and achieve mHealth targets. CONCLUSION: We conclude that there have been many advances in the provisions of ICT and mHealth interventions in India in context to smart cities and scope for improvements abound.

Keywords
ICT, mHealth, smart cities, epidemic, disease surveillance
Received
2020-09-14
Accepted
2020-09-15
Published
2020-10-05
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.5-10-2020.166546

Copyright © 2020 Rajgourab Ghosh and Sanjeev Kumar, licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.