Defending against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak: How can the Internet of Things (IoT) help to save the world?

Autor: Rahman MS; Department of Statistics, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh., Peeri NC; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA., Shrestha N; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA., Zaki R; Centre for Epidemiology and Evidence-based Practice, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Haque U; Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA., Hamid SHA; Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technologies, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Health policy and technology [Health Policy Technol] 2020 Jun; Vol. 9 (2), pp. 136-138. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Apr 22.
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2020.04.005
Abstrakt: •IoT within infectious disease epidemiology is an emerging field of research, however the ubiquitous availability of smart technologies, as well as increased risks of infectious disease spread through the globalization and interconnectedness of the world necessitates its use for predicting, preventing and controlling emerging infectious diseases.•Considering the present situation in China, IoT based smart disease surveillance systems have the potential to be a major breakthrough in efforts to control the current pandemic. With much of the infrastructure itself in place already (i.e. smartphones, wearable technologies, internet access) the role this technology can have in limiting the spread of the pandemic involves only the collection and analysis of data already gathered.•More research must be carried out for the development of automated and effective alert systems to provide early and timely detection of outbreaks of such diseases in order to reduce morbidity mortality and prevent global spread.
(© 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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