Publications by authors named "Jordi Serrano Pons"
Background: Implementation of digital health technologies has grown rapidly, but many remain limited to pilot studies due to challenges, such as a lack of evidence or barriers to implementation. Overcoming these challenges requires learning from previous implementations and systematically documenting implementation processes to better understand the real-world impact of a technology and identify effective strategies for future implementation.
Objective: A group of global experts, facilitated by the Geneva Digital Health Hub, developed the Guidelines and Checklist for the Reporting on Digital Health Implementations (iCHECK-DH, pronounced "I checked") to improve the completeness of reporting on digital health implementations.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates COVID-19 serologic responses in cancer patients in Andorra, noting that their responses may be lower compared to the general population and can depend on tumor type and cancer treatments.
- A total of 373 oncologic patients were analyzed, revealing an increase in seroprevalence from 13% to 19%, with notably lower rates in those with hematologic malignancies and those on biological therapies.
- Women and tumor-free patients exhibited higher seroprevalence, with vaccination showing varying effectiveness: those vaccinated with ChAdOx1-S had a higher seroprevalence than those vaccinated with BNT162b2.
COVID-19: an opportunity of systematic integration for Chagas disease. Example of a community-based approach within the Bolivian population in Barcelona.
BMC Infect Dis
March 2022
Background: As a Neglected Tropical Disease associated with Latin America, Chagas Disease (CD) is little known in non-endemic territories of the Americas, Europe and Western Pacific, making its control challenging, with limited detection rates, healthcare access and consequent epidemiological silence. This is reinforced by its biomedical characteristics-it is usually asymptomatic-and the fact that it mostly affects people with low social and financial resources. Because CD is mainly a chronic infection, which principally causes a cardiomyopathy and can also cause a prothrombotic status, it increases the risk of contracting severe COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: EpidemiXs is an innovative ecosystem of digital tools centralizing official and validated information on COVID-19 for healthcare workers and the general public in a single hub.
Objective: The vision of EpidemiXs is to foster collaboration between researchers, institutions and individuals to promote "open data" in order to enrich the scientific community and further accelerate science in the fight against COVID-19.
Methods: Through its set of solutions, EpidemiXs Info, EpidemiXs TV and EpidemiXs Studies, this innovative ecosystem contributes to advancing collaborations, data collection and analysis, and helps find funders.
Context: Mobile health (mHealth) provides an opportunity to use internet coverage in low- and middle-income countries to improve palliative care access and quality.
Objectives: This study aimed to design a mobile phone application (app) to enable or improve communication between family caregivers, community caregivers, and palliative care teams; to evaluate its acceptability, processes, and mechanisms of action; and to propose refinements.
Methods: A codesign process entailed collaboration between a Project Advisory Group and collaborators in India, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.