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ArticleJMIR public health and surveillance2022

Assessing the Implementation of Digital Innovations in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic to Address Key Public Health Functions: Scoping Review of Academic and Nonacademic Literature.

Joseph Francombe, Gemma-Claire Ali, Emily Ryen Gloinson, Carolina Feijao, Katherine I Morley, Salil Gunashekar, Helena de Carvalho Gomes

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Article in JMIR public health and surveillance, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Innovations in public health surveillance: An overview of novel use of data and analytic methods.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Joseph FrancombeRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0923-3073
Gemma-Claire AliRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-7510-2034
Emily Ryen GloinsonRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2313-9086
Carolina FeijaoRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-5931-3480
Katherine I MorleyRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-2725-5535
Salil GunashekarRAND Europe, Cambridge, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-6797-0728
Helena de Carvalho GomesEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-4304-4217

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundDigital technologies have been central to efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, a range of literature has reported on developments regarding the implementation of new digital technologies for COVID-19-related surveillance, prevention, and control.

objectiveIn this study, scoping reviews of academic and nonacademic literature were undertaken to obtain an overview of the evidence regarding digital innovations implemented to address key public health functions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to expand on the work of existing reviews by drawing on additional data sources (including nonacademic sources) by considering literature published over a longer time frame and analyzing data in terms of the number of unique digital innovations.

methodsWe conducted a scoping review of the academic literature published between January 1, 2020, and September 15, 2020, supplemented by a further scoping review of selected nonacademic literature published between January 1, 2020, and October 13, 2020. Both reviews followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) approach.

resultsA total of 226 academic articles and 406 nonacademic articles were included. The included articles provided evidence of 561 (academic literature) and 497 (nonacademic literature) unique digital innovations. The most common implementation settings for digital innovations were the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom. Technologies most commonly used by digital innovations were those belonging to the high-level technology group of integrated and ubiquitous fixed and mobile networks. The key public health functions most commonly addressed by digital innovations were communication and collaboration and surveillance and monitoring.

conclusionsDigital innovations implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been wide ranging in terms of their implementation settings, the digital technologies used, and the public health functions addressed. However, evidence gathered through this study also points to a range of barriers that have affected the successful implementation of digital technologies for public health functions. It is also evident that many digital innovations implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic are yet to be formally evaluated or assessed.

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COVID-19Digital TechnologyHumansPandemicsPublic HealthTechnologyUnited StatesCOVID-19digital healthdigital technologieskey public health functionsmobile phonepandemicscoping reviewsurveillance

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PMCPMC9301563

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