IT solutions for healthcare during COVID-19

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

IT company “Damu” has developed Damumed mobile app where patients can assess their symptoms with a simple questionnaire. An automatic assessment of threatening symptoms marks patients with Covid-19 alertness and all data is instantly displayed at your doctor’s office. 5000 doctors in the cities of Nur-Sultan and Almaty have been provided with free mobile communications and Internet from the companies Tele2, Altel, Kcell. The relevant agreement has been signed between Kazakhtelecom JSC and the Ministry of Healthcare.

Country

Kazakhstan

Institution

Ministry of Healthcare of Kazakhstan, private sector