Information and Resources

Information and resources for those with an interest in the use of information and communication technologies to improve healthcare delivery, individuals’ lives and communities.

Digital Health and the COVID-19 pandemic

Different information communication technologies have been used to enable healthcare delivery, communication and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find below useful digital resources.

Telehealth guidance

Decision making support services

Client communication and Information services

Digital Mental Health Support for COVID-19 crisis

Tools for self-care during physical isolation

Online learning and information for providers

Keeping up with evidence related to COVID-19

Tracking COVID-19

Miscellaneous

Telehealth guidance

• Telehealth Hub [website with tools to integrate and expand telehealth systems] (Digital Health CRC)

•  A guide to assessing patients through videos or phone calls [online paper] (Prof Trish Greenghalg et al.)

• Video consultations information for GPs [online publication] (Prof Trish Greenghalg et al.)
• Primary care guidance for COVID-19 including decision models for digital and telephone-based triage of cases [online publication] (Prof Trish Greenghalg et al.)
• Evidence on assessing dyspnoea (breathlessness) by telephone or video [online publication] (Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Service)
• COVID-19 Telehealth guides [website] (Australasian Telehealth Society]
•  COVID-19 and digital technologies: the roles, relevance and risks of using telehealth in a crisis [Webinar recording]  (Digital Health CRC)
• Telephysiotherapy in Australia during the crisis [website] (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
• Telehealth bulk billed items for COVID-19 [website] (Australian Government - Department of Health)
• Telehealth guidelines and checklist for occupational therapists  [Online publications] (Occupational Therapy Australia)
• COVID-19: Telehealth Items and Practice Process [webinar recording] (HotDoc - Register for free webinar)
• Telepractice resources for Speech Pathologists [website] (Access to members of Speech Pathology Australia)
• Expansion of Medicare COVID-19 telehealth items to include allied health [website] (Allied Health Professions Australia) 
• Quick guides for telehealth for professionals and consumers  [website] (Centre for Online Health, University of Queensland)
• The evidence behind video consultations with Prof Trish Greenghalg  [video] (eGP Learning)
• Telehealth resources in response to COVID-19 [website] (Stroke Foundation)
• Telehealth APA Q&A webinars [webinar - Register for future ones and watch previous ones] (Australian Physiotherapy Association)
• COVID-19 Response Resources - Using Telehealth [website] (Center to Advance Palliative Care)
• Video consultation: how to set them up well, fast? [webinar, videos, website for professionals and clients] (The Health Foundation)
• How to use telehealth to care for your patients during COVID-19 [website] (Telehealth Toolbox)
• Telehealth: Getting started guide [online publication] (Agency for Clinical Innovation, NSW Government, Australia)
• How to prepare for and implement telehealth: critical success factors for clinicians [webinar recording] (Digital Health CRC, Australia)
• Providing virtual care in allied health: the possibilities and potential of telehealth during the pandemic and beyond [webinar recording] (Digital Health CRC, Australia)
• Fundamentals of Telehealth and Telemedicine [ebook with 6-month free access] (IMIA Telehealth working group)
• Approaching COVID-19 in the digital era: management and advice from China and Brazil [webinar recording] (ISfTeH Telecardiology Working Group)
• Integrating e-Mental Health into Telehealth Consultations  [recorded webinar] (Black Dog Institute)
• Telehealth COVID-19 [podcast] (RACGP)
• Bringing Telehealth and digital patient education together to support patient experience and health outcomes [webinar recording] (Digital Health CRC, Australia)

Decision making support services

• healthdirect Coronavirus Symptom Checker [Online tool to check need to seek medical help or get tested] (Australian Government - Department of Health)

• COVID-19 quiz [online tool] (Queensland Goverment, Queensland Health)

• COVID-19 self-assessment tool [online tool according to CDC guidelines] (Mayo Clinic)

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Self-checker [chat bot for self-checking of symptoms] (HSE our health service, Ireland)

• Check your symptoms - NHS 111 online [online tool] (NHS, UK)

• Symptom self-check [chatbot in Portuguese and English] (Telehealth Centre Hospital das Clinicas, UFMG, Brazil)

Client Communication and Education

• COVID-19 Latest News [website with daily updates about COVID-19 by the Australian Government - Department of Health ] (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• COVID-19 Essential Information [website and videos] (Australian Government Department of Health) 
• COVID-19 health alert [website with infographics and links to apps downloads] (Australian Government Department of Health)
• Whatsapp channel of the Australian Government - to get up-to-date information from the Federal Government's Coronavirus app (Australian Government)
• COVID-19 channel [Whatsapp] (World Health Organization)
• Coronavirus Australia app - download in Apple Store and download in Google Play (Australian Government Department of Health)
• COVID-19 Restriction Checker - for Australia states and territories [website with links to apps download] (Health Direct)

• A text message service to communicate with the people most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection [Blogsite] (NHS Digital, UK)
• Videos with reliable information about COVID-19 from health professionals [Videos] (NSW Government Health)
• COVID-19 for patients and carers [website] (CareSearch - palliative care knowledge network)
• Caring for people with COVID-19 [website with various resources supporting Australian health professionals] (National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce)
• What you need to know about COVID-19 [website] (Australian Government Department of Health)
• Patient Information: Preparing for a virtual appointment [online publication] (New South Wales Government, Health, Agency for Clinical Innovation, Australia)
• Information for the community - COVID-19 [website] (Government of South Australia, SA Health, Australia)
• Health Alerts [website] (Queensland Government, Queensland Health, Australia)
• COVID-19 Information for various population segments [website] (Government of Western Australia, Department of Health, Australia)
• About COVID-19 - 'Information for everyone' [website] (Victoria State Government, Health and Human Services, Australia)
• COVID-19 'Help us save lives' [website] (New South Wales Government, Health, Australia) 
• Jack plans ahead for coronavirus: a guide for families and carers and other resources [online publications for free download] (Beyond Words, UK)
• COVID-19 Information for schools, parents and kids [website] (Fraserhealth) 
• Explaining the coronavirus to children [ebook] (Nosy Crow with scientific input from Prof Graham Medley of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• COVID-19 and heart disease [website] (Heart Foundation, Australia)
• What role each of us play in protecting our community [avatar-based animation] (Witteman Lab, Faculty of Medicine, Universite Laval, Canada)
• Flatten the curve [video] (Ohio Department of Health)
• Take action and help fight COVID-19 [website, online publications and other resources] (Voices of Youth, UNICEF)
• COVID-19: Ten Things you need to know [website] (EBSCO Health)
• Hygiene [online publication with links to various resources] (The Coronavirus Tech Handbook)
• COVID-19 Myth busters [website] (World Health Organization)
• Optimal Aging Portal [website] (Mc Master University)
• Book to help children and young people cope with COVID-19  [ebook] (World Health Organization)
• Coronavirus (COVID-19) [website with diverse tools including chat bot for self-checking of symptoms] (HSE our health service, Ireland)
• COVID-19 Information [website with statistics, publications and videos for general public and professionals] (Health Protection Surveillance System, Ireland)
• COVID-19 and Obesity [website] (European Association for the Study of Obesity)
• Coronavirus Resources Center [website] (Harvard Medical School)

Digital Mental Health Support for COVID-19 crisis

• Online assistance for people affected by mental health issues [website, chat, telephone service] (Sane Australia) 
• Coronavirus Mental Wellbeing Support Services [website, online forums, telephone assistance and other resources] (Beyond Blue)
• Digital Mental Health Services [websites, chat forums, phone services for mental support during COVID-19 crisis] (Head to Health, Australian Government, Department of Health)
• COVID-19 Mental Health Support [website and link to other resources] (Life in Mind, Australia)
• How to cope with stress related to COVID-19 - mental health support for young people from 15-25 years old [website] (headspace)
• Every Mind Matters - website with resources to understand and cope with difficulties related to mental health during the COVID-19 pandemia (NHS, UK)
• Get your Mind Plan [online tool for tailored tips and advice on mental health] (NHS, UK)
• Mobile and Digital Health Tutorials [website, videos] to help clinicians augment and expand care (The Digital Health Psychiatric Division of the Berth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Havard Medical School)
• Support for parents about COVID-19 issues [website and helpline] (PANDA)
• Helping parents to talk to teenagers about COVID-19 [website] (REACHOUT.COM)
• Digital Mental Health and COVID-19: Using Technology Today to Accelerate the Curve on Access and Quality Tomorrow  [online paper that explores the use of telehealth in COVID-19 crisis and how it can help shape the future of digital technologies in mental health care](Dr John Tourous et al.)
• COVID-19 anxiety and staying mentally health- for older adults [online publication] (Australian Psychological Society)
• COVID-19: digital mental health tools that can help [website] (Black Dog Institute)
• Prioritizing Eating Disorders Recovery and Well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic [website] (University of California San Francisco)
• Publicly-funded evidence informed resources for mental health [website with lists of apps for free download] (App Campaign, Department of Veteran Affairs, US)
• Useful wellness and mental health apps [website] (University of California San Francisco)
• Mental Health and psychosocial considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak [online publication] (World Health Organization)
• Meeting psychological needs of people recovering from severe COVID-19 [webinar recording] (British Psychological Society)
• Settling the Mind: Mental Health and Coronavirus Webinar Series [webinar series recording] (Black Dog Institute)

Tools for self-care during physical isolation

• How adults can stay active and healthy during the COVID-19 lockdown [video] (University College of London)
• How to keep children active and healthy during the COVID-19 lockdown [video] (University College of London)
• Self-care for doctors during the COVID-19 outbreak [website] (Queensland Doctors' Health Project, Australia)
• Move More [Facebook page with recorded and live videos of exercise series] (American Heart Association) 
• Find your 30 min at home [website with tips and plans for physical activity at home for children] (Sports AU)
• Caring for our caregivers during COVID-19 [website with selfcare advice for health professionals and tools and resources for COVID-19 education] (American Medical Association]
• Stay physically active during self-quarantine [website] (World Health Organization)
• Strategies to promote better sleep in these uncertain times [blog site] (Havard Medical School)
• Supporting our people [website with links to Our NHS People app] (NHS, UK)

Online learning/information for providers

• Open WHO: Responding to COVID-19 - Real time training for the coronavirus outbreak [online education] (World Health Organization)
• Oxford COVID-19 Evidence Centre (Centre of Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford)
• COVID -19 Updates and Information - Links to clinical guidelines, updates from health agencies all over the world, and Dynamed and IBM Micromedex topics related to COVID-19 [website] (EBSCO)
• COVID-19 Supporting online courses [web platform - register for free access to COVID-19 modules] (BMJ Learning)
• COVID-19: Operational guidance for maintaining essential health services during an outbreak [online publication] (World Health Organization)
• COVID-19 [online topic with free access] (UpToDate)
• Australian Health Sector Emergency Response Plan to COVID-19 [online publication focusing on management and operational plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders populations] (Australian Government, Department of Health)
• COVID-19: information for health professionals [website] (Government of South Australia, SA Health)
• COVID-19 Conversations [slides and transcript of webinars] (American Public Health Association and National Academy of Sciences)
• Information about cancer and COVID-19 [website] (Australian Government Department of Health, Cancer Australia)
• COVID-19 Information for Health Professionals- focus on Palliative Care [website] (CareSearch)
• COVID-19: An ACP's Physicians Guide + Resources [website] (American College of Physicians)
• COVID-19 Information for Queensland Clinicians [website] (Queensland Government, Queensland Health, Australia)
• COVID-19 Information for Health Professionals and GPs [website] (Government of Western Australia, Department of Health, Australia)
• COVID-19 Information for Health Professionals [website] (New South Wales Government, Health, Australia)
• COVID-19 [website] (ACT Government, Australia)
• COVID-19 [website] (Northern Territories Government, Australia)
• COVID-19 Response [website] (Primary Health Tasmania, Australia)
• COVID Ready Communication Playbook [website with a guide to clinicians about communicating with patients and families during this crisis] (VITALtalk)
• Disability considerations during the COVID-19 outbreak [online publication] (World Health Organization)
• COVID-19 [website] (The George Institute for Global Health)
• Intensive Care Society COVID-19 Guidance and Resource Library [online publications and webinars] (NIHR, UCL, Intensive Care Society, UK)
• Interim arrangements for prescriptions for supply of medicines: supporting telehealth patients and healthcare professionals [online publication] (Australian Government Department of Health)
• COVID-19 Information and Tools to Blood Management [website] (Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network)
• Disability and disablism in a time of pandemic [website] (Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia)
• COVID-19 Pandemic planning and guidelines [website] (The Pharmacy Guild of Australia)
• Obesity, COVID-19 and the Patient Perspective [webinar] (World Obesity)
• Policy Review: Literature to inform COVID-19 mitigation following community reopening [website] (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Policy Lab)
• COVID-19 and Palliative Care Resources [website] (Australia and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine)
• Statement of concern COVID-19: Human rights, disability and ethical decision-making [online publication] (Disabled People´s Organisations Australia) 
• COVID-19 [website] (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC)
• Managing memory clinics during COVID-19 [online publication-includes recommendations for telehealth assessment and rehabilitation for people with cognitive diseases] (Australian Dementia Network)
• COVID-19 Webinars [webinars recording] (World Hospice Palliative Care Alliance)
• Managing COVID-19 symptoms (including at the end of life) in the community: Summary of NICE guidelines [online publication] (BMJ)
• Public Health on Call - Evidence and experts to help you understand COVID-19 news and what it means for tomorrow [podcasts] (Bloomberg School of Public Health - Jonhs Hopkins)
• COVID Updates from the Front Lines- the IHME Model [video] (Circulation- American Heart Association)
• COVID-19 and CVD - Latest updates on the coronavirus and heart disease [website] (World Heart Federation)
• COVID-19 and Obesity [webinar series] (World Obesity)
• Technology in COVID-19 [webinar recording] (Royal College of General Practitioners) 
• Webinars and videos on COVID-19 with interests for GPs and general public [Youtube Channel] (Royal College of General Practitioners)
• Residential Aged Care COVID-19 Webinar  [webinar recording] (Australian Government Department of Health)
• COVID-19 Report [website for download of report and related data on the first 8250 critically ill patients in the UK] (Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre)
• COVID-19 Contact Tracing - starts 12th May [MOOC on Coursera] (Johns Hopkins University)
• Addressing COVID-19 in Vitenam: Progress to date and future priorities [webinar recording] (Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh)
• Rehab for Rehab during the COVID-19 pandemic [webinar recording] (Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association)

Keeping up with evidence related to COVID-19

• Pubmed search strategy and results for recent literature about COVID-19 -current Pubmed (Farhad Shokraneh, University of Nottingham) 
• Pubmed search strategy and result for recent literature about COVID-19 - future Pubmed (Farhad Shokraned, University of Nottingham)
• Search results for COVID-19 or novel coronavirus [Search Engine] (Tripdatabase)
• What are health professionals searching about COVID-19 and updated list of popular articles [Blogsite] (Tripdatabase)
• Live strategy for COVID-19 clinical trials - clinicaltrials.gov [Search Engine] (Farhad Shokraned, University of Nottingham)
• Published and unpublished literature on COVID-19 - Google Scholar [Search Engine] (Farhad Shokraned, University of Nottingham)
• COVID-19: a living systematic map of the evidence [website] (EPPI Centre)
• COVID-19: Cochrane resources and news [website] (Cochrane Library)
• Living Evidence Repository for COVID-19 [Search Engine] (Epistemonikos Foundation)
• Keeping Up with studies on COVID-19: Systematic Search Strategies and Resources [online publication] (BMJ)
• NICE providing evidence and scientific support to professionals and researchers during COVID-19 [website] (NICE, UK)
• COVID-19 Resources Centre [online publications] (JAMA Cardiology)
• Updates on COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment [online publications] (JAMA)
• COVID-19 related articles, clinical reports, guidelines and commentaries [online publications] (NEJM)
• COVID-19: Latest News and Resources [online publications] (BMJ)
• Coronavirus Collection [online publications] (Nature)
• COVID-19 Resource Centre [online publications] (The Lancet)
• Should the Roth score be used in the remote assessment of patients with possible COVID-19? Answer: No [online publication] (Centre of Evidence Based Medicine)
• COVID-19 Recommendations [website] (Choosing Wisely Canada)
• COVID-19 Primer [website/dashboard with trends in research in COVID-19] (Primer AI)
• COVID-19 related publications [website with specialist reviews of pre-prints and publications] (Publon)
• COVID-19 Collaboration Platform [online plataform for sharing research protocols, expedite collaborations and get help with statistical analysis] (Havard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University) 
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): Evidence digest [search engine] (Health Technology Wales)
• COVID-END Resources to support decision makers [website] (Mc Master University)
• COVID-19 Evidence Link - Flinders Filters [search engine] (Flinders University)

Tracking COVID-19

• COVID-19 Statistics and Research [website] (Our World in Data)
• Map and graphic data presentation of COVID-19 cases [website, Geographic Information System] (esri Australia)
• COVID-19 in Australia- Real time Report [website, Geographic Information System] (Dr Chunyang Chen et al.)
• Live statistics by country [website] (Worldometer)
• COVID Tracking Project [web platform that obtains, organizes and publishes high quality data on COVID-19 outbreak in the US] (various contributors in the US)
• A framework for identifying regional outbreak and spread of COVID-19 from one-minute population-wide surveys [online publication with links to source codes] (Hagai Rossman in Nature Medicine)
• COVID-19 in the Australian Capital Territory [website with dynamic graphs] (ACT Government, Australia)
• Coronavirus map: Tracking the Global Outbreak [website with dynamic graphs] (The New York Times)
• COVID-19 Dashboard [Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University)
• COVIDSafe App [download app that will help understanding and tackling COVID-19 spread in Australia] (Australian Government) 
• Occupational Risk due to COVID-19 in New South Wales [website with data visualisation tools for COVID-19 statistics related to work] (Small Multiples)
• COVID Control- A Johns Hopkins University Study [website with links to app download on Google Play and Apple Store] (Johns Hopkins University)
• Health map [outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance tool] (Boston Children´s Hospital)
• COVID-19 and Tobacco [webinar recording] (University of Edinburgh)

Miscellaneous

• Coronavirus updates of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society [website] (HIMSS)
• COVID-19 updates on NHS digital activities [website] (NHS Digital, UK)
• COVID-19: Digital Health resources [website] (Digital Health and Informatics Network, University of Sydney)
• COVID-19 InfoGraphics [website] (Medscape)
• Resources for researchers and clinicians fighting COVID-19 in Canada [web platform] (Group of researchers, students, clinicians, activists and web developers in Canada)     
• COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports [website with information by country] (Google) 
• Going viral: Episode 18 [Podcast episode about Digital Health services, telehealth and electronic medical record use for COVID-19 in Australia] (Dr Harry Nespolon, RACGP)  
• COVID-19 and Health Care's Digital Revolution [online paper] (Dr Sirina Keesara et al. -NEJM)   
• Human rights and COVID-19 [podcast] (The Medical Journal of Australia) 
• COVID-19 Resource Links [website with links to palliative care resources for clients and professionals] (Palliverse)  
• This is not a sprint [podcast] (Compassion Revolution)
• COVID-19 Research Database [Collection of de-identified data sets for researchers] (Various institutions)
• Commonwealth Civil Society Policy Forum [webinar recording] (Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health)
• COVID-19 Ethical and Social issues Webinar [webinar recording] (Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Disease Emergence)
• An Ethics Framework for Making Resource Allocation Decisions within Clinical Care: Responding to COVID-19 [online publication] (University of Sydney)

Useful websites in Digital Health

• Health Informatics Society of Australia (HISA) [website]- Online resource supporting the digital health professionals across research capacity, project management capability, clinical experience, entrepreneurial skills and decades of health informatics knowledge
• Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC) [website] - Australian resource providing information on the role of the Commonwealth funded DHCRC in encouraging rapid digitisation of health services and supporting clinical staff to develop technological skills
• Flinders Digital Health Research Centre [website] - Flinders Digital Health Research Centre (FDHRC) is a newly formed multidisciplinary research group supporting digital health and health technology research encouraging collaboration within Flinders and their partners
• University of San Diego The Best Health Informatics Websites and Blogs to read and follow [webpage] - provides a list of highly recommended online resources that can support researchers to improve there knowledge by accessing current communications in digital health
• Pulse+IT (ehealth and Health IT Magazine) [online publication website] - Online publication assisting healthcare providers to better understand technology in practice. Pulse+IT provides access to to an interactive website, eNewsletters and networking through social media channels
  
• One You [website] - Website of the Public Health England with lists of apps and tools with free download to help consumers keep control of their physical and mental health
•  CBC Digi-Hub  [website] - Website of the Centre of Behaviour Change of the University College of London with events and publications in Digital behaviour change

Blogs in Digital Health

There are many different sources of quality online blogs available for Digital Health researchers to access, the list below provides a selection that could help to build your knowledge:

• University College of London Centre for Behaviour Change - UCL CBC Digi-Hub [Blogsite]
• Australian Government Australia Digital Health Agency - Digital Health Space Blogs [Blogsite]
• United Kingdom Government Department of Health and Social Care - Digital health and Social Care [Blogsite]
• The Medical Futurist Institute [website]
• Dr David More - Australian Health Information Technology [Blogsite]
• Medpage Today - KevinMD.com [Blogsite and Social Media Platform]
• Pulse+IT Magazine Blog [Blogsite]
  
• United States Government Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology – Health IT Buzz [Blogsite]
• University College of London Centre of Behaviour Change Digi-Hub - CBC Digi-Hub [Blogsite] 

Care Informatics and Technologies Videos

Researchers in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Flinders University have been developing projects to improve lives of individuals, communities and the health system. In the videos below they tell us how different technologies enabled and facilitated them approaching identified health needs and research questions.