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Lessons from COVID-19: Impact on Healthcare Systems and Technology uncovers the impact that COVID-19 has made on healthcare and technology industries. State-of-the-art case studies, empirical research, and new trends in technology-mediated solution are discussed to help inform and guide readers in understanding the effects that the COVID-19 outbreak has had across healthcare and technology industries. The book discusses challenges to identify vaccines, changes in legislation on clinical trials and re-purposing of licensed drugs, effects on primary healthcare, best practices adopted by different countries to control the pandemic, and different effects on patients within diverse age groups and comorbidities. In addition, the book covers technology-mediated solutions and infrastructures applied, digital transformations, modeling techniques, statistical projections, and the benefits and use of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, medical doctors, researchers and graduate students from both biomedical and technological fields who are interested in learning more about the use of new technologies to fight a pandemic. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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In COVID-19 pandemic, ASHAs are frontline workforces in Rural and Urban India. During the outbreak of this national emergency, they were trained to check the public health parameters and conduct surveys to collect medical information from public, hospitals and quarantine camps. The collected data was submitted to Zonal Admin for further curative action. This entire process was time consuming and ineffective. For fast data gathering by ASHA workers and its management we have developed an IoT enabled mobile application ASHA Bot. This integrated solution consists of a portable handheld device to capture body temperature with no direct contact and SpO2 during the mass screening. Further, this device was interfaced with “mobile App Asha Bot”. We have exemplified the utility of ASHA Bot for ASHA workers, in collecting on filed data to gather day-to-day statistics and its management by zonal officers during the pandemic. The proposed app is further scalable for other statistical needs and could be used by the stakeholders for COVID-19 data management. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.