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COVID-19 Development and COVID-19: Dynamic Knowledge Mapping

Innovation Just as the spread of the Covid-19 infection COVID-19 Top Cited Keywords Map
has been staggering, so has been the rate and
spread of information about it. But people
The COVID-19 Symptom Monitoring System (CoSMoS) Study ask – what can be trusted? Now a multi-
disciplinary, multi-national team led by
Lim Hooi Min, Department of Primary Care Medicine Prof Ng Kwan Hoong has developed a web-
based resource for accessing new research
publications on Covid-19 using bibliometric
measures (www.covid19bibliometrics.org).

It provides reliable information on what
can be relied upon as sound science so that
health professionals and scientists can guide
research, find solutions, and help defeat this
pandemic.

The team scans and analyses this constant on the frequency of keywords employed
output of knowledge and creates a regular (see diagram above). One aim is to identify
series of overview charts providing a visual research trends and gaps in knowledge for
summary of the published literature. One future work.
example reveals five major clusters based
The Team

Prof. Dr. Ng Kwan Hong Dr. Anjanna Kukreja
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, The first CoSMoS prototype was developed Team leader Infectious Disease Specialist
members of the University of Malaya within 8 days of project commencement Medical Physicist Universiti Malaya Medical
Centre
eHealth Initiative (UMeHI) - a collaborative while patients started using it within 2 Universiti Malaya
research group that champions digital weeks after rigorous testing by the research
health research in UM – decided to team. This project is made possible by a Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kiran Kaur Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yeong Chai
develop CoSMoS to monitor patients with strong multidisciplinary team comprising Information Scientist Hong
suspected Covid-19 infection, which is researchers, clinicians, students from Universiti Malaya Medical Physicist
incurring a huge burden on the healthcare Faculties of Medicine, Computer Science Taylor’s University
providers. Patients who agree to participate and Information Technology, and Law.
in the CoSMoS study will be monitored at Currently, the CoSMoS project is being Assoc. Prof. Dr. Noorhidawati Dr. Ray Kemp
home using an interactive Telegram bot carried out at the Primary Care Clinic Information Scientist Health Risk Communication
Specialist
and reminded to report their symptoms (RUKA) and Emergency Department in Universiti Malaya United Kingdom
every day for 14 days. Patient data will then UMMC. The preliminary feedback from
be sent to a centralised CoSMoS dashboard both doctors and patients has been very
at the hospital, where doctors can monitor encouraging, and there is a plan to expand Dr. Yanti Idayu Aspura
each patient’s condition in real-time and CoSMoS to other healthcare settings Information Scientist
provide teleconsultation if necessary. to benefit more patients and healthcare Universiti Malaya
providers.

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