Role of Digital Health During Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic and Future Perspectives

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 revolutionized the digital health care. This pandemic was the catalyst for not only a sudden but also widespread paradigm shift in patient care, with nearly 80% of the US population indicating that they have used one form of digital health. Cardiac electrophysiology took the initiative to enroll patients in device clinics for remote monitoring and triage patients accordingly. Although challenges remain in making digital health available to masses, the future of digital health will be tested in the postpandemic time, and we believe these changes will continue to be expansive and widely applicable to physicians and patients.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); COVID-19 pandemic; Deep learning (DL); Digital health; Machine learning (ML); Remote monitoring; Telemedicine.