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The role of the COVID-19 pandemic in expediting digital health-care transformation: Saudi Arabia's experience.

Joud Mohammed Alkhalifah, Waleed Seddiq, Badr Fadhel Alshehri, Alhanouf Hani Alhaluli, Mohammed Mesfer Alessa, Naif Mansour Alsulais

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Review in Informatics in medicine unlocked, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Joud Mohammed AlkhalifahKing Saudi University, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Waleed SeddiqHarvard Medical School, Center of Stem Cell Translational Immunotherapy, Boston, MA, USA.
Badr Fadhel AlshehriKing Saudi University, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Alhanouf Hani AlhaluliKing Saudi University, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed Mesfer AlessaKing Saudi University, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Naif Mansour AlsulaisKing Saudi University, College of Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Electronic University · SABrigham and Women's Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A comprehensive literature review of Research engines was conducted up to March 2022 to retrieve the articles. We considered all published data, press briefings, and announcements by the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia (MOH). The search included both sources in English and Arabic. Thus, this paper aims to give a comprehensive overview of the evolution and role of telemedicine and E-health represented in multiple informatics mobile applications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia. As a component of its subjective drives, the MOH has launched and developed a total of 12 mobile applications from 2012 to 2019, three apps of which were developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. My health "Sehhaty" was the cornerstone of telemedicine services provided by the MOH in Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Virtually booked physician appointments exceeded 3.8 million. Appointment "Mawid" app number of users sprinted from 4 million to 25 million users and the number of appointments booked in the same app went from 8 million to 100 million appointments in pre-COVID-19 compared to the post-COVID-19 period. Furthermore, the Health 937 hotline numbers grew to 24.6 million calls. The Health "Seha" app provided 2 million remote medical consultations with an almost 8-fold increase compared to pre-COVID-19 times.

Indexed as

COVID-19Digital health transformationE-HealthInformaticsMobile applicationsSaudi Arabia

Identifiers

PMID36185732
PMCPMC9509531
OpenAlexW4297200709

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