Wearable Devices and mHealth: The Significant Applications in COVID 19 Pandemic

Abstract

Wearable devices (WDs) and mHealth (Mobile Health) give you the healthcare services, overcoming geographical, temporal or even organizational obstacles. Wearable technologies will have non-encroaching and sovereign devices that collect save and examine physiological information that will certainly help to improve patient health. It has been used so far for fitness purposes. But with increasing demand by patients and health care workers, wearable devices have also been developed to monitor patient health-related issues. It collects and analyses data. In some scenarios makes a sensible decision and provide a suitable response to the users. Now a day, mobile applications have also proven effective in the field of medicine with the motto of giving personalized treatment to disease control. Advanced technology in wearable gadgets has become a great aspect of our day-to day life in addition to the health care industry. A global pandemic that the world is facing in the form of COVID19 has come up with the importance of clinical research and technologies which help to tackle COVID 19 infection worldwide in an exceptional manner. While expected results have been found on effective use of wearable devices and mHealth systems to study the structure of COVID 19 and upcoming infectious ailment. The objective of this review is to test permitting technologies and structures with diverse utility to deal with the COVID 19 disaster. This review acknowledges the researchers of the wearable devices and mHealth systems which proved their significance in the present pandemic. Also, this review explains the exceptional tracking devices, which include heart rate, temperature and oxygen monitoring that, are used to diagnose COVID 19 patients.