• Karthikeyan Iyengar, Gaurav K Upadhyaya, Raju Vaishya, and Vijay Jain.
• FRCS(Tr & Orth) Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust, Southport, PR8 6PN, UK. Electronic address: kartikp31@hotmail.com.
• Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2020 Sep 1; 14 (5): 733-737.

BackgroundWith restrictions on face to face clinical consultations in the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges faced by health care systems in delivering patient care, alternative information technologies like telemedicine and smartphone are playing a key role.AimsWe assess the role and applications of smartphone technology as an extension of telemedicine in provide continuity of care to our patients and surveillance during the current COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsWe have done a comprehensive review of the literature using suitable keywords on the search engines of PubMed, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Research Gate in the first week of May 2020.ResultsThrough the published literature on this topic, we discuss role, common applications and its support in extended role of telemedicine technology in several aspects of current COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionSmartphone technology on its own and as extension of telemedicine has significant applications in the current COVID-19 pandemic. As the smartphone technology further evolves with fifth generation cellular network expansion, it is going to play a key role in future of health medicine, patient referral, consultation, ergonomics and many other extended applications of health care.Copyright © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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