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Vol.10, No.3, August 2021. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
Mobile Applications for COVID-19: Benefits, Technologies and Future Research Opportunities
Alem Čolaković, Amel Kosovac, Nermin Goran, Ermin Muharemović, Ajdin Džananović, Adisa Medić, Muamer Dervišević
© 2021 Alem Čolaković, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 1461-1469, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM103-59, August 2021.
Received: 25 June 2021. Revised: 01 August 2021.
Abstract:
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as one of the greatest problems of the 21st century worldwide. Efforts to fight this pandemic require a global co-operation and a multidisciplinary approach. An application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to a great degree contributes to fighting the pandemic as these technologies are one of the key services that assist patients, researchers, health institutions and other interested parties in different activities in an effort to fight the pandemic and its consequences. The present paper presents the features of certain mobile applications (apps) that are being used for different purposes such as: tracking patients, COVID-19-related warnings, keeping tracks of statistical data, organising life and business, etc. Aside from presenting the features of a certain number of applications, a review of technologies used for the development of these applications will also be presented. Furthermore, the paper addresses certain challenges that come along with the mobile technologies applications and offers suggestions for future research.
Keywords : COVID-19, coronavirus, pandemic, mobile applications, mHealth, health monitoring, contact tracing. |
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