London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, UK.
Division of Medicine, University College London, London, UK.
Nat Med. 2020 Aug;26(8):1183-1192. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-1011-4. Epub 2020 Aug 7.
Digital technologies are being harnessed to support the public-health response to COVID-19 worldwide, including population surveillance, case identification, contact tracing and evaluation of interventions on the basis of mobility data and communication with the public. These rapid responses leverage billions of mobile phones, large online datasets, connected devices, relatively low-cost computing resources and advances in machine learning and natural language processing. This Review aims to capture the breadth of digital innovations for the public-health response to COVID-19 worldwide and their limitations, and barriers to their implementation, including legal, ethical and privacy barriers, as well as organizational and workforce barriers. The future of public health is likely to become increasingly digital, and we review the need for the alignment of international strategies for the regulation, evaluation and use of digital technologies to strengthen pandemic management, and future preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
数字技术正在被用于支持全球范围内对 COVID-19 的公共卫生应对措施，包括人口监测、病例识别、接触者追踪，以及根据移动数据和与公众的通信来评估干预措施。这些快速响应利用了数十亿部手机、大型在线数据集、连接设备、相对低成本的计算资源，以及机器学习和自然语言处理方面的进展。这篇综述旨在捕捉全球范围内针对 COVID-19 的公共卫生应对措施所涉及的数字创新的广度，以及它们的局限性和实施障碍，包括法律、伦理和隐私障碍，以及组织和劳动力障碍。公共卫生的未来可能会越来越数字化，我们审查了需要调整国际战略，以规范、评估和使用数字技术，从而加强大流行管理，并为 COVID-19 和其他传染病做好未来的准备。
