The Use of COVID-19 Mobile Apps in Connecting Patients with Primary Healthcare in 30 Countries: Eurodata Study.
Raquel Gómez-BravoSara Ares-BlancoIleana Gefaell LarrondoLourdes Ramos Del RioLimor AdlerRadost AssenovaMaria BakolaAbdelmalik HaderbacheElena Brutskaya-StempkovskayaIliana-Carmen BusneagAsja Ćosić DivjakMaryher Delphin PeñaPhilippe-Richard J DomeyerSabine FeldmaneLouise FitzgeraldDragan GjorgjievskiMila Gómez-JohanssonMiroslav HanževačkiОксана ІльковShushman IvannaMarijana Jandrić-KočićVasilis Trifon KarathanosErva ÜcüncüAleksandar KirkovskiSnežana KneževićBüsra Çimen KorkmazMilena KostićAnna Krztoń-KrólewieckaLiga KozlovskaHeidrun LingnerLiubove MurauskieneKatarzyna NesslerNaldy Parodi LópezÁbel PerjésDavorina PetekFerdinando PetrazzuoliGoranka PetricekMartin SattlerBohumil SeifertAlice SerafiniTheresa SentkerGunta TicmanePaula TiiliPéter TorzsaKirsi ValtonenBert VaesShlomo VinkerAna Luisa NevesMarina Guisado-ClaveroMaría Pilar Astier PeñaKathryn HoffmannPublished in: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
COVID-19 apps were widely created during the first pandemic year. Contact tracing was the most frequent function found in the registered apps. Connection with PHC was scarcely developed. In future pandemics, connections between health system levels should be guaranteed to develop and implement effective strategies for managing diseases.