COVID-19 Digital Health Innovation Policy: A Portal to Alternative Futures in the Making

Omics : a Journal of Integrative Biology
Mustafa BayramVural Özdemir

Abstract

"The pandemic is a portal." In the words of the novelist scholar Arundhati Roy, the COVID-19 pandemic is not merely an epic calamity. It has opened up a new space, a portal, to rethink everything, for example, in how we live, work, produce scientific knowledge, provide health care, and relate to others, be they humans or nonhuman animals in planetary ecosystems. Meanwhile, as the intensity of the pandemic escalates, digital health tools such as the Internet of Things (IoT), biosensors, and artificial intelligence (AI) are being deployed to address the twin goals of social distancing and health care in a "no touch" emergency state. Permanent integration of digital technologies into every aspect of post-pandemic civic life-health care, disease tracking, education, work, and beyond-is considered by governments and technology actors around the world. Although digital transformation of health care and industry are in the works, we ought to ensure that digital transformation does not degenerate into "digitalism," which we define here as an unchecked and misguided belief on extreme digital connectivity without considering the attendant adverse repercussions on science, human rights, and everyday practices of democracy. Indeed, the cur...Continue Reading

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Jul 7, 2020·Omics : a Journal of Integrative Biology·René Von Schomberg, Vural Özdemir
Jun 9, 2020·Omics : a Journal of Integrative Biology·Vural ÖzdemirMustafa Bayram
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