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

[AP2-E2-5-01] Digital Health for Augmenting Health Systems during COVID19 Pandemic: Current Practices and Future Directions

*Oommen John1,2, *Mark Landry3, *Kyung-Hee Cho4, *Louise K Schaper5, *Alvin Marcelo6, *Siaw-Teng Liawg8,7, *Vajira H. W. Dissanayake9 (1. The George Institute of Global Health, India, 2. Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Australia, 3. Regional Office for South-East Asia, World Health Organization, India, 4. National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea, 5. Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Melbourne, Australia, 6. University of Philippines, Manila, Philippines, 7. School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW, Australia, 8. WHO Collaborating Centre for eHealth, UNSW, Australia, 9. University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Digital health, Health Systems, COVID-19, Pandemic Response

The implementation of digital health is gathering momentum backed by World Health Assembly resolutions and govern-ments, inter-governmental agencies, and non-governmental organizations coming together to promote speedy adoption of digital health. The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted the immense value that digital tools offer when health systems capacity is stretched. The accelerated the implementation of digital health tools aid early warning systems, support con-tact tracing and has the potential to augment health systems capacity. This panel is aimed at collating country level expe-riences around implementation of digital health interven-tions during the pandemic and identify best practices that can be scaled across the globe. It will also identify challeng-es that countries faced in scaling up interventions and out-line pathways to address the same while generating evidence to inform policy around digital health for augmenting health systems.