Technology-Based Solutions to Improve Management of COVID-19: A Call for More Utilization in Iran

摘要

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic as a new infectious disease has forced all healthcare systems to utilize technology-based services more than ever before (1). With previous successful experiences of using health-related technologies in the management of infectious respiratory epidemics such as SARS and MERS, it can be expected that most of them be useful in this new type of epidemic as well. Management of infectious disease generally contains prevention, control, diagnosis, isolation, treatment, and follow-up care phases, which eHealth in each of these phases can potentially be effective.