Digital health innovations in China in response to Covid-19 pandemic: benefits, challenges and future trends (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Sun ◽  
Yuhong Yang ◽  
Jialin Charlie Zheng

UNSTRUCTURED In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, China has made tremendous efforts in developing digital innovations such as health QR code, digital vaccine chains and Internet hospitals in helping with disease surveillance, vaccination, and health service delivery. Our manuscript briefly summarized the benefits, challenges, and future trends of these digital health innovations, hoping to call for further discussion from the international audience.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey A Davenport ◽  
Vanessa Wan Sze Cheng ◽  
Frank Iorfino ◽  
Blake Hamilton ◽  
Eva Castaldi ◽  
...  

UNSTRUCTURED The demand for mental health services is projected to rapidly increase as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that young people are disproportionately disadvantaged by mental illness and will face further challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to deliver appropriate mental health care to young people as early as possible. Integrating digital health solutions into mental health service delivery pathways has the potential to greatly increase efficiencies, enabling the provision of “right care, first time.” We propose an innovative digital health solution for demand management intended for use by primary youth mental health services, comprised of (1) a youth mental health model of care (ie, the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model) and (2) a health information technology specifically designed to deliver this model of care (eg, the InnoWell Platform). We also propose an operational protocol of how this solution could be applied to primary youth mental health service delivery processes. By “flipping” the conventional service delivery models of majority in-clinic and minority web-delivered care to a model where web-delivered care is the default, this digital health solution offers a scalable way of delivering quality youth mental health care both in response to public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and on an ongoing basis in the future.


Author(s):  
Karan Bhavsar ◽  
Harsh Vishwakarma ◽  
Bhaskar R Pawar ◽  
Sujit Shinde ◽  
Sanjay Kimbahune ◽  
...  

10.2196/24578 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e24578
Author(s):  
Tracey A Davenport ◽  
Vanessa Wan Sze Cheng ◽  
Frank Iorfino ◽  
Blake Hamilton ◽  
Eva Castaldi ◽  
...  

The demand for mental health services is projected to rapidly increase as a direct and indirect result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Given that young people are disproportionately disadvantaged by mental illness and will face further challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is crucial to deliver appropriate mental health care to young people as early as possible. Integrating digital health solutions into mental health service delivery pathways has the potential to greatly increase efficiencies, enabling the provision of “right care, first time.” We propose an innovative digital health solution for demand management intended for use by primary youth mental health services, comprised of (1) a youth mental health model of care (ie, the Brain and Mind Centre Youth Model) and (2) a health information technology specifically designed to deliver this model of care (eg, the InnoWell Platform). We also propose an operational protocol of how this solution could be applied to primary youth mental health service delivery processes. By “flipping” the conventional service delivery models of majority in-clinic and minority web-delivered care to a model where web-delivered care is the default, this digital health solution offers a scalable way of delivering quality youth mental health care both in response to public health crises (such as the COVID-19 pandemic) and on an ongoing basis in the future.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Tappis ◽  
Sarah Elaraby ◽  
Shatha Elnakib ◽  
Nagiba A. Abdulghani AlShawafi ◽  
Huda BaSaleem ◽  
...  

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