Japan Association for Medical Informatics

The 40th Joint Conference on Medical Informatics / APAMI2020

The 40th Joint Conference on Medical Informatics / APAMI2020

Nov 18, 2020 - Nov 23, 2020
Actcity Hamamatsu

[AP1-E2-3-01] Mobile Applications for COVID-19 Tracing in Thailand

*Utoomporn Wongsin1, Thaworn Sakunpanit2, Boonchai Kijsanayotin3, Yu-Chuan Jack Li4,5,6, Usman Iqbal1,7,8 (1. PhD Program in Global health and Health security Program, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, 2. Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, 3. Thai Health Information Standards Development Center, Thailand, 4. Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, 5. Department of Dermatology, Taipei Municipal Wan Fan Hospital, Taiwan, 6. International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), Switzerland, 7. Global Health and Development Department, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, 8. International Center for Health Information Technology (ICHIT), Taipei Medical University, Taiwan)

Mobile Applications, COVID-19, Tracing in Thailand, Contact Tracing, Digital Health

Around the world, everything is changing to digital many countries using mobile apps for monitoring and other telemedicine services. Thailand is among one to introduce digital solutions such as mobile apps for covid 19. Thailand is one of countries encounter difficulties associated with COVID-19 since early January. It is supposed to increase more confirm cases because tourism is one of main income. Thailand has started to screen at five main airports all tourists travelling from Wuhan on 3 January 2020. This paper aims to demonstrate situation and role of mobile applications to response COVID-19 situation in Thailand. It shows that mobile applications play a vital role in increasing awareness of COVID-19 from Thai people and Thai government agencies.