Smartphone and its role in the Covid pandemic 19

Reducing physical contact and increasing social distance is one of the most critical principles in preventing coronavirus spread worldwide. Smartphones play an essential role in maintaining social distance and increasing the provision of remote health care services. The purpose of this study was to investigate the applications of smartphones in providing educational services and remote health care against the Covid 19 virus.Methods: This review study was conducted in 1399 with the keywords mobile health, mobile applications, smartphones, coronavirus, COVID19 in PubMed, Google Scholar, IEEE, Springer Link, Research Gate databases. Criteria for inclusion of the study, genuine English-language research conducted since 11/3/2020, coincided with the official announcement of the start of the Covid 19 pandemic by the World Health Organization until 11/20/2020, which examined the use of smartphones and its capabilities in Provided distance education, prevention, and treatment services to people at risk and those infected with the Covid 19 virus. Review articles, letters to the editor, and articles outside the mentioned period were among the exclusion criteria.Results: Out of 11 articles, seven articles were selected according to inclusion criteria. Studies have shown that sending treatment and care secret messages by the treatment team to patients and receiving feedback continuously (2 articles), geographical tracking of patients to control the spread and spread of the virus through the installation of sensors and GPS on mobile phones ( 2 articles), Confidential SMS training to people at risk (3 articles) including cell phone applications in the field of prevention and control of Covid 19 virus.Conclusion: Smartphones have an essential role in increasing awareness of people at risk, monitoring the status of infected patients, identifying movement patterns of carriers of the virus along with privacy, managing the use of health care resources, and reducing the costs of inpatient visits.