Khaleghi Ali, Mohammadi Mohammad Reza, Pirzad Jahromi Gila, Zarafshan Hadi
Psychiatry and Psychology Research Center, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Neuroscience Research Centre, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Iran J Psychiatry. 2020 Jul;15(3):236-242. doi: 10.18502/ijps.v15i3.3816.
Health care systems and professionals worldwide are relying on technology as an essential partner to manage the COVID-19 epidemic. This paper explains how digital technologies can benefit the public, medical workers, and health care systems. This nonsystematic literature review was conducted on different technologies and their impact and applications in the COVID-19 epidemic using proper search keywords on the PubMed, Google Scholar, and Science Direct databases. We found various helpful technologies, which can help us to appropriately contain and manage the COVID-19 pandemic through broad areas of clinical care, logistics, maintenance of socioeconomic activities, and inspection. However, main challenges still need to be addressed for obtaining the full capacities of the technologies to support health care systems. Technologies can offer many innovative ideas and solutions against global and local emergencies. In this time of great vagueness and danger, we require all the resources we can collect to rescue ourselves and our patients. Barriers and challenges, such as lack of technology proficiency, confidentiality requirements, and reimbursement matters, need to be recognized and resolved rapidly, accurately, and compassionately.
全球的医疗保健系统和专业人员都将技术视为应对新冠疫情的重要合作伙伴。本文阐述了数字技术如何使公众、医护人员和医疗保健系统受益。本非系统性文献综述通过在PubMed、谷歌学术和科学Direct数据库上使用适当的搜索关键词，对不同技术及其在新冠疫情中的影响和应用进行了研究。我们发现了各种有用的技术，这些技术可以通过临床护理、物流、社会经济活动的维持和检查等广泛领域，帮助我们妥善控制和管理新冠疫情。然而，要充分发挥这些技术支持医疗保健系统的能力，仍需应对一些主要挑战。技术可以针对全球和局部紧急情况提供许多创新理念和解决方案。在这个充满巨大不确定性和危险的时期，我们需要尽可能收集所有资源来拯救自己和我们的患者。必须迅速、准确且富有同情心地认识并解决诸如技术熟练程度不足、保密要求和报销问题等障碍和挑战。
