Fighting requires a severe pandemic as COVID 19-drastic reactions and political leaders and public health officials have turned to provide some of the more radical strategies. That block of a city in China has rapidly begun to quarantine an entire province expanded, and now entire countries like Italy. While social isolation and curfews of the most effective ways to stop the virus transmission chain, said to be possible to some health experts, it was not a global phenomenon these draconian measures. “If health officials have taken action earlier and may contain the outbreak in Wuhan, where the first cases, could the matter of global lives have been in a lot of local,” she says Richard Kuhn were reported, a virologist and professor of computer science at the University -Purdue, the key to early reaction is centuries old research strategies and methods contains almost all sectors are trusted by the bank on manufacturing, retail, but that has to be adopted still slow in public health. smartphone applications, data analysis and artificial intelligence all the research and treat people with a contagious disease much more efficiently than ever. “The connectivity we have today gives us ammunition this pandemic in a way to fight we ever thought possible,” Alain Labrique, director of the Johns Hopkins University -mHealth says global initiative. Yet until now, the global public health response to COVID-19 has only scratched the surface of what this new containment tools provide. On the basis of them it will be crucial to ensure that the next outbreak does not have the ability to explode global pandemic outbreak. Consider the doctors currently seen as new cases of COVID-19 Many people who develop the characteristic symptoms of disease, as a fever, cough and shortness of breath – physically visit a primary care physician, a doctor for an urgent establishment or an emergency room. But this is what people should do may be infected with a highly contagious disease last year. Instead, health officials penetrate them remotely via an app to a doctor for the connection that their symptoms can Triage while they are still at home. “The reality is that the brick and mortar of clinical medicine, with the possibility of exposure to the virus is widespread,” says Dr. Jonathan meadows, founder and medical director of the Medicare Orbis, a telemedicine company. “The system that we are in the right place, in which all who are at risk is potentially infectious. This is petrifying.” Instead, people who can may a telemedicine center to name and describe their symptoms to a doctor then determine if you need COVID-19 suspends testing-without which no other services. In Singapore, an application popular telemedicine -MaNaDr used more than a million people called the family doctor Dr. Siaw Tung Yeng established for virtual visits; The 20% of physicians in the island country offers a certain level of service through the application. to control in an attempt to escalate the crown cases, such as people with symptoms it is always advised by doctors to MaNaDr prescreened and stay home if they do not need intensive care. Check the patient then every night with their telemedicine doctor and report if their fever persists, if they have difficulty breathing, or if you feel worse. If they get worse, taking an ambulance, the doctor orders people to the hospital. Siaw says the virtual monitoring to stay at home makes people more comfortable, where many cases can be treated instead to flood hospitals and doctors’ offices, strain limited resources and can make others sick. “So we can on the remote, be careful to monitor patients over the distance and rate their progress over the distance,” says Siaw. “There is no better time than now for the remote support to monitor our patients.” Other devices at home and is currently used in the US services, allow patients to dozens of health values such as temperature, blood pressure and several times daily blood sugar, and the results are automatically saved to measure the cloud, which doctors receive alerts when readings are normal. Telemedicine also serves as a powerful communication tool for hundreds of thousands of people in a particular area to date with the latest advice on the risk in their communities and how best to maintain protection. This can go a long way toward reassuring people to go and prevent panic and works on health centers and hospitals. Beyond the care at the individual level, the data collected from the telemedicine services data can be extracted to include the widest flow and the flow of a trajectory of the epidemic in a population. In the United States, now serves Kaiser Permanente Telemedicine Call Center as a bellwether for an expected increase in demand for health services. Dr. Stephen Parodi, the country’s leading infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente, was from a Google project a few years ago has inspired, in which the company has created an algorithm of flu-like terms users to determine where clusters of cases piling up . Parodi began pursuing the crown-related calls from the health system 4.5 -million members in Northern California in February. “We’ve gone from 200 calls per day on symptoms of COVID-19 per day to 3,500 calls, which was an early indicator of community-based transmission,” he says. “Our call volume we are told, several weeks before the country his entire online exam, we would like that we got plan for an increase in cases.” operations elective hospital system on local conditions based on below into account exposure, in part, to ensure that fans and other critical devices would for an influx expected Based on waves in national calls, COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms are available. Kaiser doctors appointments for mammograms and other displaced routine cancer screening tests and average new round of appointments in person by most non-critical virtual tours for visitors. The COVID-19 pandemic, the test may be that telemedicine should finally make its value, especially in the US, despite the fact that applications and technologies for virtual health visitors are there for several decades, recording in the country only. Slowly recently in person Medicare visits began comparable to Tele check reimbursement rates and the states have only doctors to treat patients in another -remotely been in a state to prevent the admission rules began to relax. “The -pandemic almost like crossing the Rubicon,” says Wiesen Medi Orbis. “It ‘a call for America and for the world, the importance of telemedicine.” Parodi true. “I think this pandemic in a fundamental change in how we will bring the practice of medicine and the way the health system works in the United States,” he says. “We expect to come out and a lot of health care should not be personal visits -Realize.” Other technological innovations that have not been fully their way into the public health sector could also play an important role this -pandemic and control future outbreaks. A closer examination of the health-related information, such as electronic health records or sale of over-the-counter medications, valuable information on how can an infectious disease such COVID-19 will move through a population. retail pharmacies to track inventory and sales of non-prescription fever reducers, for example, and could serve all the trends in the data than in the past, although raw, harbingers of the increasing prevalence of the disease in a community. And given the proliferation of health monitoring applications on smartphones to analyze data trends such as an increase in the average temperature of the body in a specific geographic area could provide clues to new clusters of cases. GeoTracking of mobile phones, while controversial because of privacy protection, the tedious task of finding contacts can optimize, in which scientists try to manually keep track infected patients pied how to find a lot of people with whom direct contact and he could have been infected. In South Korea, this strategy has helped many of the contacts of the members of a church in Seoul identify, which was the first large cluster of infections in the country. In countries with less robust health infrastructure, smart phones can be to collect information on new infections at the critical level. In Bangladesh, she says Labrique questions, created for canvass programs for non-communicable diseases, such as hyper- tension and diabetes are now changed about COVID-19 Symptoms include. These types of real-time data can quickly take a snapshot of where and how fast the disease could spread to the staff of health services and accessories for distribution, where they are most needed. E ‘to control all of these cases as soon as possible to minimize the peak of a pandemic, do not get overwhelmed by the health system. But it is not only to see trends. By flattening the wave of an infectious disease requires action, and that is where the advice gets -muddier but also where the big data and artificial intelligence (AI) can provide clarity. Through deep that each COVID-19 patients, for example, obtained in the care of the analysis, AI can tease the best treatment strategies. Jvion, an analysis of health care company, is to identify with AI 30 million patients in its data universe for people to study and communities based on more than 5,000 variables with the highest risk of COVID-19, which not only medical history, but also the lifestyle and socioeconomic factors such as access to permanent housing and transport. include working with clients, large hospital systems as well as small health centers at a distance, creating Jvion platform lists of people to be contacted proactively to warn them of their vulnerability provider health so create a support for their plan . If COVID-19, the social distancing and avoid large public gatherings could be. To help departments better public health communities to prepare for this and future outbreaks, the company with the Center for the control and prevention of disease in conjunction must share what he has learned. However, privacy issues nest in every byte of data on the health of a person. Thus, power is artificial intelligence methods in control outbreaks depends on how efficiently data is anonymous. Only when the people of privacy can be guaranteed aid algorithms to navigate the next big hurdle: the forecast peak in cases of permanent staff for the health and care, such as ventilators, masks and gowns. If COVID-19 public health teaches one thing, it is that there are tools now also included is an infectious disease of radical measures are needed as quarantine and curfew. “What we do 10 years before and what we do is completely different now,” says Meadows. “There’s a great opportunity here, and hopefully by [the next pandemic], the use of technology and data analysis will be light years ahead, where it is today.” Picture copyright by Ed Jones AFP / Getty Images
could be the technology that our best hope for the fight against his COVID-19 and future outbreaks
