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Can Technology Help Prevent Preventable Deaths? About two-thirds of deaths globally could be potentially avoided and patients’ quality of life could be improved by diagnosing diseases faster, monitoring patients better, and efficiently implementing digital therapies. Will modern digital health care change black statistics? 2,000,000 deaths due to COVID-19 The pandemic has affected every country in the world with equal force. A wellfunctioning epidemiological surveillance system is one of the key elements in controlling the spread of communicable diseases. It allows for accurately obtaining an overview of the situation and then planning activities depending on current needs.
By the end of 2020, in modern Singapore (population of 6.5 million), more than 58,000 cases of SARS-CoV-2 infections and 29 deaths were recorded. The rescue was not drugs or a vaccine (still not available at that time), but an effective national strategy to fight the pandemic, along with new technologies later so willingly copied by other countries. There, 92% of the population has down-
loaded the TraceTogether contact tracking app. In the early stages of the pandemic, the lack of reliable statistics led to chaotic and blind operations in many countries. Without a unified reporting system, Europe missed some key turning points by reacting too slowly to a rapidly changing situation, including the emergence of coronavirus mutation. If there had been epidemiological surveillance systems based on real-time data, rather than on information delivered with a delay of several days, the reaction could have been faster and more flexible. That is why we need an IT infrastructure and collaboration in sharing data.
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