Digital Health During COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and opportunities Review

Maged Naser, Mohamed M. Naser, Lamia H. Shehata, Laila Abdelfattah

Abstract


Corona virus pandemic caused an enormous effect on medical care, public activity, and economies on a worldwide scale. Clearly, technology has a vital role to empower omnipresent and available digital health services in pandemic conditions just as against “reappearance” of COVID-19 disease in a post-pandemic period. Likewise, 5G systems and 5G-empowered e-health arrangements are principal. This paper features philosophies to adequately use 5G for e-health use cases and its job to empower significant digital healthcare services. It's anything but a comprehensive conversation of the implementation issues, potential cures and future research bearings for 5G to lighten the health challenges related to COVID-19.


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Delivery of Health Care, Health Information Systems, Remote Consultation, Telemedicine, Telecommunications

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