An Overview of Healthcare Information Technologies Used to Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

This article describes the rapid development and deployment of healthcare information technologies (HIT) in response to COVID-19 from late January through March 2020 China. It outlines broad scope in-depth penetration various products services, as well impacts that these products/services had reaching mass population for effective dissemination, contact tracing, early diagnosis, virtual care, teleconsultation, social distancing community outreach support. The also new infrastructures exponential growth usage technologies. Combined with other measures, HIT have played a crucial role China galvanizing public solidarity achieving massive scale contact-tracing interventions personalized manner.