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Remote health diagnosis and monitoring in the time of COVID-19

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Behar, Joachim A, Liu, Chengyu, Kotzen, Kevin, Tsutsui, Kenta, Corino, Valentina D A, Singh, Janmajay, Pimentel, Marco A F, Warrick, Philip +8 more·2020·Physiological Measurement

Abstract

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is rapidly spreading across the globe. The clinical spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia requires early detection and monitoring, within a clinical environment for critical cases and remotely for mild cases, with a large spectrum of symptoms. The fear of contamination in clinical environments has led to a dramatic reduction in on-site referrals for routine care. There has also been a perceived need to continuously monitor non-severe COVID-19 patients, either from their quarantine site at home, or dedicated quarantine locations (e.g. hotels). In particular, facilitating contact tracing with proximity and location tracing apps was adopted in many countries very rapidly. Thus, the pandemic has driven incentives to innovate and enhance or create new routes for providing healthcare services at distance. In particular, this has created a dramatic impetus to find innovative ways to remotely and effectively monitor patient health status. In this paper, we present a review of remote health monitoring initiatives taken in 20 states during the time of the pandemic. We emphasize in the discussion particular aspects that are common ground for the reviewed states, in particular the future impact of the pandemic on remote health monitoring and consideration on data privacy.

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Behar, J. A., Liu, C., Kotzen, K., Tsutsui, K., Corino, V. D. A., Singh, J., Pimentel, M. A. F., Warrick, P., Zaunseder, S., Andreotti, F., Sebag, D., Kopanitsa, G., McSharry, P. E., Karlen, W., Karmakar, C., & Clifford, G. D.
Affiliations
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
  • State Key Laboratory of Digital Medical Engineering (CN)
  • Saitama International Medical Center (JP)
  • Politecnico di Milano (IT)
  • University of Oxford (GB)
  • ITMO University (RU)
  • ETH Zurich (CH)
  • Deakin University (AU)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Behar, Joachim A
Venue
Physiological Measurement
Published
2020-10-01
Volume
41
Issue
10
Pages
10TR01
ISSN
  • 0967-3334 (ISSN-L)
  • 1361-6579
OpenAlex
W3087521224
Cited by
86
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 3
FWCI
8.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Physiological Measurement (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • OPUS (Augsburg University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (UL1TR002378)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Healthcare during COVID-19 Pandemic
Keywords
remote patient monitoring, COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, telemedicine, contact tracing, quarantine, data privacy, home care, pandemic impact on healthcare
MeSH terms
COVID-19, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Pneumonia, Viral, Telemedicine, Coronavirus Infections, Pandemics

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