Healthcare Innovation December 3, 2020
They looked at mHealth in the categories of wearable sensors, digital contact tracing technology, and electronic patient-recorded outcomes screening systems
A 60-person taskforce has published a study reviewing mobile health technologies and examining their use in monitoring and mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that mHealth technologies are viable options to monitor COVID-positive patients and predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention.
The study, “Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID 19 Pandemic?”, has been published in the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. The taskforce was led by Harvard Medical School Associate Professor Paolo Bonato, director of the Motion Analysis Lab at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, and included international...