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    Automated Contact Tracing: Is It Efficient?

    • IT
    • 24/08/2020

    Contract tracing apps all of a sudden have proliferated as these digital tools are increasingly used, alongside other infection control measures, in battling the COVID-19 pandemic. However,...

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    COVID-19 and mHealth

    • IT
    • 19/08/2020

    A major challenge in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic is the 'silent transmission' of coronavirus caused – often unknowingly – by asymptomatic individuals. Leveraging mHealth technologi

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    eHealth Tools for Asthma Care in Adolescents

    • IT
    • 17/08/2020

    Asthma is a chronic lung disease prevalent among adolescents, yet most interventions have focused on the care of child and adult sufferers. A new systematic review (van Buul et al. 2020) has...

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    Not Everyone Is Ready for Telehealth

    • IT
    • 14/08/2020

    With pandemic-induced lockdowns and travel curbs, telemedicine offers a safe and convenient way to meet the healthcare needs of patients without leaving their home. However, in the U.S., new...

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    Care Through ePortal: Best Practice from Ireland

    • IT
    • 03/08/2020

    Electronic patient portals (ePortal) enable patients and care-partners (eg, family members) to securely access their health records and communicate (eg, instant messaging or chat) with healthca

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    Remote Monitoring for COVID-19 Symptoms

    • IT
    • 30/07/2020

    Wearables such as Fitbit watches and bands are empowering people to better monitor their health and fitness. These mHealth devices are a goldmine of health-related information – from heart...

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    Questions to Ask About Chatbots

    • IT
    • 28/07/2020

    The application of conversational agents (CAs, or chatbots) in healthcare is just beginning, but there are a number of c linical, legal, and ethical aspects to be considered by clinicians and...

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    mHealth with Pencil and Paper

    • IT
    • 26/07/2020

    Fabrication of bioelectronic devices of the future may not require any complex and expensive materials but only paper and pencil. A group of engineers from the University of Missouri explored...

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    Clinical AI Needs Dedicated Department

    • IT
    • 26/07/2020

    Despite extensive theoretical research in the field of medical artificial intelligence (AI), few developed models are evaluated on patients and implemented, which creates a gap between expectat

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    Applying AI Algorithms to COVID-19

    • IT
    • 16/07/2020

    The adage ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ is all the more true during the COVID-19 pandemic, when scientists are racing to find new vaccines and treatments. Early diagnosis of the disease

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