The Revolutionary Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mobile Health; Highlights of the Fourth Shiraz International Congress on Mobile Health

Abstract

Mobile health (m-health) is considered an undeniable part of health service delivery, planning, and marketing, which has dramatically changed due to the unique situa-tion caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Forth International Congress of Mobile Health, from February 14th to 16th, 2021, in Shiraz, Iran, aimed to provide a venue to exchange ideas, techniques, relevant experiments, and applications with a particu-lar focus on the COVID-19 pandemic impacts. More than 70 experts from different countries in engineering, biomedical sciences, and humanities presented their recent experiences in m-health advancements, particularly in response to the COVID-19 out-break. In this article, highlights of the most valuable ideas presented at the congress are concisely summarized to give scientists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and other stake-holders a better understanding of the growing opportunities, and challenges toward the development of m-health.