COVID-19 and applications of smartphone technology in the current pandemic

Purpose of the study: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound effects on healthcare system including medical training and education in India. The study was aimed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on postgraduate teaching and learning amongst candidates pursuing higher qualification in orthopaedics, in the Delhi-National Capital Region in India. Design: An online cross-sectional survey of 29 questions was circulated amongst postgraduate students pursuing higher orthopaedics degree to evaluate (i) Impact on PG teaching (ii) Impact on surgical training (iii) Impact on Dissertation (iv) Future implications on PG training programme (v) Mental wellbeing. Results: 138 (77.5) PG trainees contributed in the survey, and 65.1% of them stated that no clinical classes are being held presently. The majority (94%) confirmed that COVID-19 has affected their surgical and clinical training. A large number (71.6%) had problems in completing their dissertations and 96% had concerns about mental health. Conclusion: COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted the education and training of the Orthopaedic PG students, in Delhi-NCR region and perhaps elsewhere similarly too. The Government and Teaching organisations should take serious consideration of the plights of PGs and devise satisfactory mechanisms to overcome their problems and provide reasonable solutions also.

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“…This can be through video lectures or through social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter over smartphone. 21 …”

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“…This can be through video lectures or through social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, and Twitter over smartphone. 21 Possible solutions or Recommendations for PG teaching programme during COVID-19 pandemic is summarised in Table 2.…”

Section: Mental Well Beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID-19 on post-graduate orthopaedic training in Delhi-NCR

Upadhyaya

Jain

Iyengar

et al. 2020

Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma

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“…Smartphone technology applications can be expanded to play a key role in assessment, monitoring, contact tracing and remote management of TB patients as it is being undertaken for COVID-19 disease in the current pandemic. 4 …”

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Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in India- double trouble!

Iyengar

Jain

2020

Indian Journal of Tuberculosis

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Highlights COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Tuberculosis diagnosis, surveillance and management. COVID-19 and Tuberculosis has spelled double trouble for India. Simultaneous testing of the for both TB and COVID-19 is required on suspicion. Telemedicine has definite role in monitoring, contact tracing and remote management of TB patients and COVID-19 disease.

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“…World Health Organization (WHO) is continuously changing the COVID-19 database through the ArcGIS GeoEvent service to send changes several times every day [8]. Contacts tracking apps are the relevant means of controlling infections, however, new cases continue to increase, limitations making appropriate controlling of transferring of diseases more complicated [9].…”

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Internet of Things and Blockchain-based framework for Coronavirus (Covid-19) Disease

Alam¹

2020

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The COVID-19 is an exponentially growing disease that has intentioned nations to use technologies to detect the coronavirus infection. Several nations are working greatly to fight against COVID-19. Many nations have been using a range of devices to combat the pandemic, seeking information about growth, monitoring as well as the leaking the confidential information of the residents. This research aims to assist infected people online using the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain technologies through smart devices. IoT-based healthcare devices gather useful information, provide additional insight through symptoms and behaviors, allow remote monitoring, and simply give people better self - determination and healthcare. Blockchain allows the secure transfer of patient health information, regulates the medical distribution network. A four-layer architecture is proposed using IoT and Blockchain to detect and prevent individuals to be COVID 19. This research provides a framework for patients with COVID-19 infectious disease and recognizes health issues and diagnoses online. Smart devices such as smartphones can install any mobile apps such as Aarogya Setu, Tawakkalna, and so on. These applications can track COVID-19 patients properly. The installation of mobile apps on smart devices focuses to reduce the time and cost and increase the performance of the infectious patient's condition. A four-layer architecture is proposed using IoT and Blockchain technologies. Many research works focus on investigating, analyzing, and highlighting the affected individuals through guiding the COVID-19 infection. Eventually, various mobile apps are recognized and addressed in this paper.

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COVID-19 and applications of smartphone technology in the current pandemic

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Impact of COVID-19 on post-graduate orthopaedic training in Delhi-NCR

Impact of COVID-19 on post-graduate orthopaedic training in Delhi-NCR

Tuberculosis and COVID-19 in India- double trouble!

Internet of Things and Blockchain-based framework for Coronavirus (Covid-19) Disease

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