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The Clinical Challenges for Digital Health Revolution
Published in Chinmay Chakraborty, Digital Health Transformation with Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence, 2022
Ramkrishna Mondal, Siddharth Mishra
Greaves et al. [8] stated that digital health is a multidisciplinary domain that aims to enhance the efficiency of monitoring of the patients, diagnosis, management, prevention, rehabilitation and long-term care delivery. Digital health is not an instant overnight phenomenon. The history of digital health dates to the 1970s when health telematics came into existence as cited in WHO report [9]. Telecommunications give the healthcare systems a great opportunity to improve health, health education and follow-ups using health telematics. Meister et al. [10] and Stanberry [11] opined that Health telematics which initially focused only on techniques of improving diagnosis and treatment has now evolved into telemedicine, which is now the dominant area of digital health. The concept of personal data which include health and medical data, social data, financial data, behavioural data as shown in Figure 7.1 schematically and it shows the contribution of health data in perspective of personal data.
IoT Cloud Network for Healthcare
Published in Sanjay Kumar Biswash, Sourav Kanti Addya, Cloud Network Management, 2020
Ashok Kumar Pradhan, E. Bhaskara Santhosh, S Priyanka
With the coming of the Internet of Things (IoT) into the picture, it became possible to create a network between different devices through software, sensors and network connectivity thereby enabling an exchange of data between them. This propelled the rise of Digital Health which is defined as “an improvement in the way healthcare provision is conceived and delivered by healthcare providers through the use of information and communication technologies to monitor and improve the wellbeing and health of patients and to empower patients in the management of their health and that of their families” and includes categories such as mHealth, health information technology (IT), wearable devices, tele-health and tele-medicine and personalized medicine.
Breaking barriers: telehealth to improve access to assistive technology
Published in Assistive Technology, 2023
Aoife Healy, Nicola Eddison, Nachiappan Chockalingam
Telehealth has the potential to reduce health inequities by enabling people to access digital health information and tools to help them to better manage their health and care. It also offers more convenience and choice to service users who cannot or may not want to engage with assistive technology providers face-to-face e.g., homeless people and people with mental health problems or debilitating illnesses. Telehealth may provide a more personalized approach to healthcare focusing on the delivery of services in a way that matters to the service user, aligned with their preferences and personal circumstances. It also has the potential to reduce the burden of treatment for people with long-term health conditions. Nevertheless, when developing telehealth services, it is important to consider that not all types of services can be successfully delivered via telehealth and that telehealth consultations are not suitable for all service users.
The Role of Privacy in the Acceptance of Smart Technologies: Applying the Privacy Calculus to Technology Acceptance
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2022
Eva-Maria Schomakers, Chantal Lidynia, Martina Ziefle
In aging societies, the increased prevalence of chronic diseases puts healthcare systems under pressure. Digital health technologies improve the quality of care, support therapy, and facilitate the management of chronic diseases. They can also be used to prevent or delay health problems, e.g., by the use of fitness trackers – also called activity trackers (Aceto et al., 2018). Fitness technologies track data about steps, other activities, dietary intake, sleep, and ever more often the heart rate of the wearer. Together with stored data about age, weight, and even women’s menstrual cycle, much sensitive information is combined and stored in clouds. Research has confirmed that – given the sensitive data collected by fitness trackers – privacy concerns represent an important barrier for their acceptance (Burbach et al., 2019; Lidynia et al., 2018).
The use of digital technology to improve and monitor handwashing among children 12 years or younger in educational settings: a scoping review
Published in International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 2022
Sylvia K. Ofori, Yuen Wai Hung, Jessica S. Schwind, Kamalich Muniz-Rodriguez, Reece J. Kakou, Sunmisola E. Alade, Kadiatou Diallo, Kelly L. Sullivan, Benjamin J. Cowling, I. C. H. Fung
Digital health is a nouveau area of research that involves the use of information and communication technologies to improve population health and quality and access to healthcare (Gossman et al. 2019). The relevance of digital technologies in health has been reported in physical activity and obesity studies among children (Turner et al. 2015; Ye et al. 2018; Quan et al. 2018). Recent hand hygiene studies have also incorporated the use of digital technology to monitor handwashing behavior (Ram et al. 2010; Davis 2010; Sahud et al. 2010). For example, in healthcare settings, researchers developed an iPhone application to record hand hygiene practice in real-time, and applied radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and triggers to detect the use of alcohol-based hand rubs (Sahud et al. 2010); researchers also used hidden surveillance video cameras to determine the frequency at which healthcare workers used alcohol-based hand rubs (Davis 2010). In a study in Bangladesh, researchers embedded acceleration sensors in soaps placed in households to monitor handwashing (Ram et al. 2010). These studies suggested differential results when the use of digital technology for data collection was compared with in-person observations. Thus, the results from the use of structured observation in monitoring handwashing behavior may have been influenced by reactivity to the presence of an observer (the ‘Hawthorne effect’), and using digital technology may be more practical and accurate.