How Digital Health Technology Can Help in Managing The Coronavirus Outbreak?

Chinese health authorities reported an outbreak of pneumonia-like illness that has killed five and sickened 305 people. Well, this is not an excerpt from COVID-19 based news. It is actually from a news piece from 2003 and it describes the outbreak of SARS, which affected 8000 people. While coronavirus and SARS had the same origination and the way they spread, how they are being controlled all over the world is not at all same. The seventeen-year gap between the two outbreaks has resulted in the development of new technologies that are more efficient and more easily available as compared to 2003 when SARS was creating panic amongst people. The technologies back then were poorly developed and nonexistent but now they are widespread and more affordable and have helped control the spread of the disease to a great extent. Digital health technology has also helped in the following ways. #1 Tracking Coronavirus Pandemic The digital health technology has helped manage the coronavirus pandemic by offering an early signal to possible infection. Many public health authorities, as widely reported, are limiting the test eligibility to healthcare workers and symptomatic patients. Furthermore, generally, the symptoms show up in several days and if a person does not get tested in time, they may transfer the virus to other people around them. However, using technology, one can know which area they should avoid going to that have large gatherings. Just by looking at a person, you cannot know if they have coronavirus or not. But digital health technology that uses big data analytics can easily track and anticipate the spread of the disease. By filtering relevant news reports, artificial intelligence can know how the disease can be spread further, which can easily be avoided. Moreover, AI can sift through available data and be able to make informed predictions that are later confirmed by experts, and enable relevant bodies to contain similar diseases before they are even able to leave their origin source. To Know More Visit - Posted in: news