Rövid leírás:

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of digital health technologies in primary care.

Hosszú leírás:

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of digital health technologies in primary care. Discussing the transformative potential of digital health solutions and their impact on healthcare delivery within the primary care setting, the book offers insights, considers strategies and shares practical guidance for all primary care providers interested in leveraging digital innovations to enhance patient outcomes and optimize care delivery.

Key Features:

?         Content specific to and tailored for primary care and family medicine

?         Provides expert opinion and thought leadership on key enablers and hindrances of digital technology within health care systems

?         Includes concepts of patient and provider co-design of ideal systems and real-world examples of successful integrations of technologies into patient-centred models of care

?         Delivers the essential knowledge for practitioners and policy makers to develop and implement digital health innovation and service redesign

Through structured description of the spectrum of existing digital innovations, all applicable within and relevant to primary care, this timely new guide will support clinicians, innovators and policy makers to maximize the opportunities and challenges that these technologies present and enable future doctors, whatever their career aspirations, to understand the importance of digital innovation and its applications in health systems and patient-centred care.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Foreword

Chapter 1 Understanding Digital Health in Primary Care

Chai Carol Chan, Jako Burgers, Pramendra Prasad, Mehmet Ungan, Karen Kinder, Azeem Majeed and Ana Luisa Neves

Chapter 2 Digital Health Tools for Clinical Practice 

Edmond Li, Olivia Lounsbury, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Unben Pillay, Avivit Golan Cohen and Shlomo Vinker

Chapter 3 The Role of Digital Health in Patient-Centered Care

Keith Thompson, Hüsna Sar?ca Çevik, Hans Eguia, Bridget L. Ryan, Moira Stewart and Tom Freeman

Chapter 4 Improving clinical effectiveness through Digital Interventions 

Nana Kwame Ayisi-Boateng, Eric Kojo Nsa Oduro, Obed Kwabena Offe Amponsah, Douglas Aninng Opoku, Jacopo Demurtas and Benedict Hayhoe

Chapter 5 Safety and unintended consequences

Ulrik Bak Kirk, Rebecca Payne, Ana Ferreira, Andree Rochfort and Nancy Matillya

Chapter 6 Equity and digital divide

Steven van de Vijver, Paulien Tensen, Raquel Gómez Bravo, Francisca Gaifém, Pratyush Kumar and Mercy Wanjala

Chapter 7 User-centred design, user perspectives and experiences (Patients and HCPs) with Digital Health

Geva Greenfield, Ana Rita Luz, Boon How Chew, Kam Cheong Wong and Cristina Jácome

Chapter 8 Implementing Digital Health Solutions in Primary Care

Geronimo Jimenez, Marise Kasteleyn, Niels Chavannes, Raluca Zoi?anu, Ahmed Alboksmaty

Chapter 9 Digital Health Sustainability and Systems Thinking Approaches

Nick Guldemond, Melita Sogomonjan and Mariam Beridze

Chapter 10 Conclusion: Transforming Primary Care Through Digital Health 

Liliana Laranjo, Sara Ares-Blanco, Amanda Howe, Sankha Randenikumara and Donald Li

Index