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An International Task Force involving Professor Zhang Yuanting and cerebro-cardiovascular health engineering experts from CityU led by the team of Harvard Medical School has conducted a study to review mHealth and wearable technologies and concluded that such technologies can be used to monitor COVID-19 patients and predict symptom escalation for earlier intervention.

Prof. Zhang is the coordinator of the health engineering team at CityU. The Task Force also consisted of experts from Wyss Institute at Harvard University, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, etc. The study entitled “Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?” is published in the August 2020 issue of IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.

Press coverage:
(20 Aug 2020) CityU joining international study on roles of wearable and mHealth technologies in COVID-19 pandemic
(7 Aug 2020) Can mHealth Technology Help Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic?