Digital Healthcare Innovations and Implementation Considerations Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the daily lives of people worldwide on an unprecedented scale, resulting in the emergence of new norms, such as people staying at home for longer periods of time, the ubiquitous pandemic prevention and control measures happening on individual, community and national levels, as well as the increased need for personal healthcare at home. These scenarios have brought about new challenges and issues, which digital technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and 5G can help to address. This paper will discuss some examples of these the innovations in digital healthcare in response to the COVID- 19 pandemic, as well as propose a quantitative scoring criteria for practical considerations to aid data-driven decision making during the roll-out of these technologies.