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Research Paper | Information Technology | United States of America | Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2022
Evaluating the State of Healthcare and Innovations through Mhealth before & Post COVID-19 Era and the Obstacles to its Development
Abstract: This research focuses on addressing the issue of whether there has been any advancement in the state of healthcare through mobile health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic that shook the world. Furthermore, it aims to investigate and discover the reasons for the lack of growth of mobile health technology in certain countries around the world. In addressing these issues, this work utilizes mainly secondary data analysis method by first comparing the state of mobile health technology and the other technological innovations in the healthcare system generally before the Cocis-19 pandemic to what now obtains. The findings of this study thus, reveal that COVID-19 served as a catalyst to several inventions and innovations in the mobile health space and healthcare in general, as all these were geared towards curbing and controlling the pandemic. Similarly, it further discovered that certain factors such as poverty, lack of technological advancement, and others play vital roles in hindering the spread of this technological advancement to specific countries worldwide.
Keywords: mobile health, COVID-19 pandemic, technology
Edition: Volume 11 Issue 1, January 2022,
Pages: 364 - 370