Full Description
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 optimise 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 maximise the opportunities and challenges that these technologies present. This guide will also enable future doctors, whatever their career aspirations, to understand the importance of digital innovation and its applications in health systems and patient-centred care.
About the Editors:
Ana Luisa Neves MD PhD, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Digital Health, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, UK; Chair of the WONCA Working Party on eHealth
Lilliana Laranjo MD MPH PhD, Associate Professor, Westmead Applied Research Centre, Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Australia; Deputy Chair of the WONCA Working Party on eHealth.
Contents
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 Sarıca 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 and User Experiences 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 Zoițanu, 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
