Pandemic and the Critical Role of Knowledge Management
Platforms Offered to Human Use in the Process of Information Sharing
Asiye Bilgili, Maziar Ravan BakhshIn the last quarter of 2019, pneumonia cases of unknown cause were detected in Wuhan, China. Before long, World Health Organization named this new virus SARS-CoV-2 and named the disease COVID-19. The disease began to spread between countries in a short time, and as of March 2020, Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO. In this disease, where the rate of transmission is high, sharing of information is critical in the management of the epidemic. In this curent epidemic, patient samples in hospitals, imaging and laboratory results of the patient, research findings on vaccine studies, information on currently used treatments, guidelines created by leading institutions and organizations such as the World Health Organization, local governments’ recommendations to cope with the epidemic. It is known that a large amount of data including regulations and anti-epidemic policy information has been reached. This study, it is aimed to identify the platforms that can be evaluated within the scope of information management during the COVID-19 pandemic process, to define and categorize the functions of these platforms. Within the scope of the study, information sharing platforms and software tools were examined. Accordingly, in this study, platforms that enable data transfer between laboratories, dashboards with instant data, platforms with data sets for the use of researchers, and social media are summarized in 4 categories.