Elsevier

Journal of Infection

Volume 82, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 159-198
Journal of Infection

Letter to the Editor
Mobile health technology combats COVID-19 in China

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Highlights

  • Internet hospitals alleviate the unavailability, inaccessibility, and inequity of health services during the outbreak.

  • Fact-check and information-release platforms reduce the spread of misinformation.

  • Health QR codes facilitate restoring the order of production and life.

  • Mobile health technologies support China fight against COVID-19.

Abstract

China empowers mobile health technologies to fight against COVID-19 pandemic. The success of mobile health here may be a useful reference for other parts of the world. We explore China's application of mobile health technologies to replenishing traditional public-health and social approaches for mitigating and suppressing COVID-19, and found that Internet hospitals alleviate the unavailability, inaccessibility, and inequity of health services during the outbreak; the fact-check and information-release platforms reduce the spread of misinformation; and the infection risk scoring systems facilitate restoring the order of production and life.

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Both the authors contributed equally to this work.

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