COVID-19: The Importance of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health During a Pandemic

The Covid-19 has brought about a major change in the way people live, work and interact. To face the challenges of the epidemic, health professionals and researchers have implemented several technologies from Industry 4.0. In order to elucidate the application of these technologies in the context of the pandemic, the objective of this article is to analyze the main research trends of the Technologies 4.0 from the main publications on the subject. Data collection was carried out in the Scopus database in September 2020 and 413 studies were identified. The gaps identified in this research were: Apply artificial intelligence and I4.0 technologies to support and speed up Covid-19 diagnosis, Implement Risk Management tools to prevent and mitigate new Covid-19 infection waves, Integrate I4.0 technologies into microbiology and clinical trials, Mapping and sharing data that identify transmission rates and Covid’19 diffusion routes, Search for treatment alternatives to Covid-19 through algorithms and artificial intelligence. The main academic contribution of this article was to systematize technological trends and understanding the influence of artificial intelligence and impact on the most urgent issues of the pandemic.