Ali Yasir, Khan Habib Ullah
Higher Education Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Government Degree College Kotha Swabi, KP, Pakistan.
Higher Education Department, Shahzeb Shaheed Government Degree College Razzar, Swabi, KP, Pakistan.
Comput Netw. 2023 Apr;224:109605. doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2023.109605. Epub 2023 Feb 3.
The COVID-19 pandemic ravaged almost every walk of life but it triggered many challenges for the healthcare system, globally. Different cutting-edge technologies such as Internet of things (IoT), machine learning, Virtual Reality (VR), Big data, Blockchain etc. have been adopted to cope with this menace. In this regard, various surveys have been conducted to highlight the importance of these technologies. However, among these technologies, the role of mobile computing is of paramount importance which is not found in the existing literature. Hence, this survey in mainly targeted to highlight the significant role of mobile computing in alleviating the impacts of COVID-19 in healthcare sector The major applications of mobile computing such as software-based solutions, hardware-based solutions and wireless communication-based support for diagnosis, prevention, self-symptom reporting, contact tracing, social distancing, telemedicine and treatment related to coronavirus are discussed in detailed and comprehensive fashion. A state-of-the-art work is presented to identify the challenges along with possible solutions in adoption of mobile computing with respect to COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully, this research will help the researchers, policymakers and healthcare professionals to understand the current research gaps and future research directions in this domain. To the best level of our knowledge, this is the first survey of its type to address the COVID-19 pandemic by exploring the holistic contribution of mobile computing technologies in healthcare area.
新冠疫情肆虐了几乎各行各业，但在全球范围内，它给医疗系统带来了诸多挑战。人们采用了不同的前沿技术，如物联网（IoT）、机器学习、虚拟现实（VR）、大数据、区块链等，来应对这一威胁。在这方面，已经开展了各种调查，以突出这些技术的重要性。然而，在这些技术中，移动计算的作用至关重要，而现有文献中并未涉及。因此，本次调查主要旨在突出移动计算在减轻新冠疫情对医疗部门影响方面的重要作用。本文详细且全面地讨论了移动计算的主要应用，如基于软件的解决方案、基于硬件的解决方案以及基于无线通信的支持，这些支持涉及冠状病毒的诊断、预防、自我症状报告、接触者追踪、社交距离、远程医疗和治疗等方面。本文还展示了一项前沿研究成果，以确定在应对新冠疫情采用移动计算过程中面临的挑战以及可能的解决方案。希望这项研究能够帮助研究人员、政策制定者和医疗专业人员了解该领域当前的研究空白和未来的研究方向。据我们所知，这是首次通过探讨移动计算技术在医疗领域的整体贡献来应对新冠疫情的此类调查。
