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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,616 Views
15 Pages

27 September 2023

The first reported infections from COVID-19 were in 2019 and, since then, an outbreak has spread rapidly to other parts of the world, resulting in many deaths. As a result, governments began to implement border restrictions and quarantine measures, b...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,182 Views
13 Pages

11 February 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread restrictions globally, prompting governments to implement measures for containment. Vaccines, while aiding in reducing virus transmission, have also introduced the challenge of identifying vaccinated individual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,532 Views
16 Pages

Objective: In order to facilitate free movement of EU citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic, in early 2021 the European Commission proposed the establishment of an EU Digital COVID Certificate. By 1 July 2021, all EU Member States have successfully i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,617 Views
9 Pages

Does the EU COVID Digital Certificate Strike a Reasonable Balance between Mobility Needs and Public Health?

  • Gianluca Montanari Vergallo,
  • Simona Zaami,
  • Francesca Negro,
  • Pietro Brunetti,
  • Alessandro Del Rio and
  • Enrico Marinelli

9 October 2021

The need to fight a highly aggressive virus such as SARS-CoV-2 has compelled governments to put in place measures, which, in the name of health protection, have constrained many freedoms we all enjoy, including freedom of movement, both nationally an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,929 Views
22 Pages

Blockchain in Healthcare: A Decentralized Platform for Digital Health Passport of COVID-19 Based on Vaccination and Immunity Certificates

  • Abdul Razzaq,
  • Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan,
  • Shahbaz Ahmed Khan Ghayyur,
  • Nouf Al-Kahtani,
  • Hend Khalid Alkahtani and
  • Samih M. Mostafa

5 December 2022

COVID-19 has become a very transmissible disease that has had a worldwide impact, resulting in a huge number of infections and fatalities. Testing is critical to the pandemic’s successful response because it helps detect illnesses and so attenu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,111 Views
15 Pages

Moving towards Digitising COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate: A Systematic Review of Literature

  • Jonathan Kissi,
  • Emmanuel Kusi Achampong,
  • Nathan Kumasenu Mensah,
  • Caleb Annobil and
  • Jessica Naa Lamptey

29 November 2022

The coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis of our time, having claimed over 2 million lives and shocking the global economy. Scientists and governments have suggested the idea of a digital COVID-19 certificate, to identify vaccinated persons eas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,234 Views
24 Pages

Privacy-Preserving Solution for European Union Digital Vaccine Certificates

  • Petr Dzurenda,
  • Sara Ricci,
  • Petr Ilgner,
  • Lukas Malina and
  • Carles Anglès-Tafalla

5 October 2023

The recent COVID-19 pandemic situation highlights the importance of digital vaccine certificates. In response, the European Union (EU) developed EU Digital Vaccine Certificates to enable proof of non-infectivity and completed vaccinations. However, t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,250 Views
4 Pages

Due to the recent outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, everybody’s lives have changed dramatically and society went through new stages accompanied by new needs. This article details a solution for one of these needs, since it provides a system of digit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,382 Views
22 Pages

Background: The main goal of this case study is to analyze the air traffic, air cargo, and the safety-hygiene air corridor between UK and Spain, in airports managed by MAG Group (UK) and AENA Group (Spain). Methods: To review the specific paradigm of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,509 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2022

Due to its significant global impact, both domestic and international efforts are underway to cure the infection and stop the COVID-19 virus from spreading further. In resource-limited environments, overwhelmed healthcare institutions and surveillanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,247 Views
18 Pages

The Use of COVID-19 Mobile Apps in Connecting Patients with Primary Healthcare in 30 Countries: Eurodata Study

  • Raquel Gómez-Bravo,
  • Sara Ares-Blanco,
  • Ileana Gefaell Larrondo,
  • Lourdes Ramos Del Rio,
  • Limor Adler,
  • Radost Assenova,
  • Maria Bakola,
  • Sabine Bayen,
  • Elena Brutskaya-Stempkovskaya and
  • Kathryn Hoffmann
  • + 41 authors

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated changes in European healthcare systems, with a significant proportion of COVID-19 cases being managed on an outpatient basis in primary healthcare (PHC). To alleviate the burden on healthcare facilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,319 Views
17 Pages

Bridging the Generational Digital Divide in the Healthcare Environment

  • Teresa Lopez de Coca,
  • Lucrecia Moreno,
  • Mónica Alacreu and
  • Maria Sebastian-Morello

26 July 2022

Increasing technological advances have generated a digital dependency in the population, resulting in a group of digitally excluded vulnerable people that lack basic digital skills. The aim of this study was to assess the digital divide in patients i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,789 Views
15 Pages

26 October 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic deeply impacted not only human wealth but also all segments of the economy as well as the field of technology. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to analyze the effects that the pandemic crisis and digitization have had on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,078 Views
11 Pages

Public Perceptions of Harms and Benefit of COVID-19 Immunity Certificate: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Italian Setting

  • Serena Barello,
  • Michele Paleologo,
  • Lorenzo Palamenghi,
  • Marta Acampora and
  • Guendalina Graffigna

8 September 2022

A cross-sectional survey between 29 January 2022 and 3 February 2022 was conducted to understand the public rationale for accepting or rejecting the use of COVID-19 immunity certificates and to identify the psychosocial factors that mostly predict th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,693 Views
20 Pages

An International Federal Hyperledger Fabric Verification Framework for Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Passport

  • Dong-Her Shih,
  • Pai-Ling Shih,
  • Ting-Wei Wu,
  • Shu-Huai Liang and
  • Ming-Hung Shih

6 October 2022

The COVID-19 virus has been spreading worldwide on a large scale since 2019, and the most effective way to prevent COVID-19 is to vaccinate. In order to prove that vaccination has been administered to allow access to different areas, paper vaccine pa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,769 Views
11 Pages

Medical Liability of the Vaccinating Doctor: Comparing Policies in European Union Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Carlotta Amantea,
  • Maria Francesca Rossi,
  • Paolo Emilio Santoro,
  • Flavia Beccia,
  • Maria Rosaria Gualano,
  • Ivan Borrelli,
  • Joana Pinto da Costa,
  • Alessandra Daniele,
  • Antonio Tumminello and
  • Umberto Moscato
  • + 2 authors

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic exhausted healthcare systems around the world, including European Union countries, with healthcare workers at the frontline. Therefore, new health laws and policies have been introduced at the national level in order to...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,320 Views
7 Pages

“Immuni” and the National Health System: Lessons Learnt from the COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing in Italy

  • Silvia Ussai,
  • Marco Pistis,
  • Eduardo Missoni,
  • Beatrice Formenti,
  • Benedetta Armocida,
  • Tatiana Pedrazzi,
  • Francesco Castelli,
  • Lorenzo Monasta,
  • Baldassare Lauria and
  • Ilaria Mariani

Since the early stage of the current pandemic, digital contact tracing (DCT) through mobile phone apps, called “Immuni”, has been introduced to complement manual contact tracing in Italy. Until 31 December 2021, Immuni identified 44,880 C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,650 Views
17 Pages

24 October 2021

Health authorities have recommended the use of digital tools for home workouts to stay active and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, a machine learning approach is proposed to assess the activity of users on a home workout platform....

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,459 Views
37 Pages

25 January 2021

In addition to the exhibition, collection, research, and educational functions of the museum, the development of a future museum includes the trend of leisure and sightseeing. Although the museum is a non-profit organization, if it can provide digita...

  • Tutorial
  • Open Access
402 Views
11 Pages

COVID-19 has forced educational institutions to increasingly rely on technology to provide appropriate clinical experiences for students. Simulations and case studies have been used for decades, but COVID-19 thrust these resources into the forefront...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,530 Views
20 Pages

COVID-19 Pandemic Waves: 4IR Technology Utilisation in Multi-Sector Economy

  • Israel Edem Agbehadji,
  • Bankole Osita Awuzie and
  • Alfred Beati Ngowi

10 September 2021

In this paper, we reviewed the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies applied to waves of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). COVID-19 is an existential threat that has resulted in an unprecedented loss of lives, disruption of flight schedul...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
19,823 Views
6 Pages

4 August 2023

The coffee industry is encountering a plethora of challenges amidst a rapidly evolving world. We will delve into the multifaceted landscape of the coffee business, highlighting the emerging hurdles that have reshaped its dynamics. Climate change rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
20,527 Views
26 Pages

7 December 2023

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented shock to the world economy. Consumer purchase of a country’s brand and the products manufactured in their own country plays a vital role in that country’s GDP, and helps revive the co...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,866 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2021

The vaccination against the COVID-19, finally available, has the potential to represent an important defence against the pandemic. The identification of both obstacles and tools to combat them are, at this moment, of strategic importance. Previous ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,401 Views
20 Pages

Health System Barriers to Child Mandatory and Optional Vaccination among Ukrainian Migrants in Poland in the Context of MMR and HPV Vaccines—A Qualitative Study

  • Maria Ganczak,
  • Paweł Kalinowski,
  • Oskar Pasek,
  • Łukasz Duda-Duma,
  • Ewa Sobieraj,
  • Jakub Goławski,
  • Daniel Biesiada,
  • Danielle Jansen,
  • Johanna P. M. Vervoort and
  • Marta Kowalska
  • + 1 author

Background Migrants’ access to healthcare services is limited. This study aimed to identify health system barriers to vaccination, specifically HPV/MMR vaccination among children in Ukrainian economic migrants (UMs). Methods Between December 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,186 Views
21 Pages

CoviBlock: A Secure Blockchain-Based Smart Healthcare Assisting System

  • Bhaskara S. Egala,
  • Ashok K. Pradhan,
  • Shubham Gupta,
  • Kshira Sagar Sahoo,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Kyung-Sup Kwak

15 December 2022

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the significance of digital health record management systems for pandemic mitigation. Existing smart healthcare systems (SHSs) fail to preserve system-level medical record openness and privacy while includi...