The Role of Electronic Health During the Covid-19 Crisis: A Systematic Review of Literatures

In late 2019, Covid-19 Outbreak started in Wuhan, China and quickly spread through whole world. On the other hand, health information technology plays an important role in the current health system. Therefore, the aim of this systematic review investigates the role of electronic health during the outbreak of Covid-19 Crisis.

In this review study, studies from December 2019 to March 7, 2020 were searched for keywords and their equivalent in the "Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)" in the PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus databases also google search was used. From a total of 47 studies, 21 articles were identified relevant based on our research purpose. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, finally five main articles and three reports were selected for review.

Studies evaluated the effective role of information technology in the diagnosis of Covid-19, prevalence, preventive, education and identification of high-risk areas. Among the technologies used were telemedicine, machine learning algorithms, deep learning, neural networks, and geographic information systems.

The results of this study showed that governments and medical informatics professionals can learn from the experiences of the role of technology in preventing Covid-19 outbreak for any future epidemic to prevent any threat to the lives of nations, the recession, and ultimately the immediate response in times of crisis.