The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has deeply altered social and working environments in several ways. Social distancing policies, mandatory lockdowns, isolation periods, and anxiety of getting sick, along with the suspension of productive activity, loss of income, and fear of the future, jointly influence the mental health of citizens and workers. Workplace aspects can play a crucial role on moderating or worsening mental health of people facing this pandemic scenario. The purpose of this literature review is to deepen the psychological aspects linked to workplace factors, following the epidemic rise of COVID-19, in order to address upcoming psychological critical issues in the workplaces. We performed a literature search using Google Scholar, PubMed, and Scopus, selecting papers focusing on workers’ psychological problems that can be related to the workplace during the pandemic. Thirty-five articles were included. Mental issues related to the health emergency, such as anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sleep disorders are more likely to affect healthcare workers, especially those on the frontline, migrant workers, and workers in contact with the public.

Aarogyapath, a web-based solution for the healthcare supply chain that provides real-time availability of critical supplies launched. This public platform will help healthcare users like hospitals, pathology laboratories, research institutes, medical colleges and patients. This national healthcare supply chain portal will remove supply chain bottlenecks during the Covid-19 pandemic. The vision of this initiative is to set up an information management and forecasting database platform at national level. It will capture demand and supply scenarios for key healthcare needs items. This public platform can help customers in tackling a number of routinely experienced issues like dependence on limited suppliers, time-consuming processes to identify good quality products, limited access to suppliers etc. It also helps to reduce the Black Marketing of medical equipment & products, Unstandardized Medical product prices. It’s the single platform of all medical suppliers & buyers for any announcement/feedback etc. It will also help the manufacturers and suppliers to reach customers efficiently like nearby pathological laboratories, medical stores, hospitals, etc. It will also create opportunities for business.

The purpose of the study is to understand how healthcare service innovation process is managed in the publicly funded healthcare sector. A qualitative study has been done in the healthcare sector in Sweden at Västra Götaland municipal level. From five in-depth interviews the study suggests that an intermediary organization like testbed plays a crucial role in enabling innovation (new service development) in the healthcare service sector in Sweden as it creates a context where the private sector (companies) meet with their match in the public sector such as, healthcare service provider, academic researchers, and municipality. Testbed allows these different actors to place their offers in the table for achieving a common goal thus enable new service creation. However, testbed fails to enable the diffusion of the new service due to (1) regulatory issues which often evolves simultaneously with the new service production over time and (2) organizational resistance to change which often is associated with the fear of replacing the employees with new machines or new ways of treating patients thus considered as socially unsustainable.