Behavioral Change
James M. Rippe in Manual of Lifestyle Medicine, 2021
A wide variety of digital health technologies have been developed to promote healthy behavior change, including mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT) wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized medicine (33). Digital health can be broadly defined as the use of digital techniques for healthy living, health care, and society. These technologies continue to evolve. It is important for health care practitioners to evaluate what is available in various digital technologies and assist their patients in utilizing the most appropriate ones for their individual situation. It is important to recognize that to utilize these digital technologies a patient needs to be motivated to acquire and use the device. Second, devices must be able to accurately track the target behavior. A good example is the use of digital physical activity platforms to increase one’s physical activity.
Digital Health Ecosystems: A Strategy for Transformation of Health Systems in the Post-Pandemic Future
Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Deborah Trautman, Kedar Mate, Howard Catton in Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 1, 2022
Digital health is the evolution phase of healthcare, transforming the traditional healthcare system that is focused primarily on disease management, to one that is proactive, focused on keeping people healthy and well. This shift will require the bridging of two health systems, the traditional in which the power is currently held in the hands of administration and clinicians, and the consumer-based system, where the individual owns all of their health data, mobilizing data from both personal and form health system sources. The four dimensions of digital health transformation and interdependent, person-centered, analytics, interoperability, governance and workforce, collectively offer a roadmap to digital health transformation. They provide a framework for healthcare systems and organizations to begin their transformation to a new digital future. Through embracing the digital health revolution, healthcare systems can transform, creating sustainable healthcare systems while improving the quality and care for every global citizen everywhere to realize their full health potential.
Nursing Education and Digital Health Strategies
Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Deborah Trautman, Kedar Mate, Howard Catton in Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 2, 2022
Digital Health is then the application of information and communication technology to provide digital health interventions to prevent disease and improve quality of life. Digital health includes concepts from technology and healthcare. Digital health applies transformational processes to healthcare incorporating software, hardware and services. Digital health includes mobile health (mHealth) applications, electronic health records (EHRs), wearable devices, telehealth, telemedicine and personalized medicine. Digital health technology and processes support interventions to prevent disease, improve quality of life, address global health concerns related to aging, illness and mortality, epidemics and pandemics by providing digital health platforms, health systems, and related technology and infrastructure (Bernstein, 2021).
Safe abortion within the Venezuelan complex humanitarian emergency: understanding context as key to identifying the potential for digital self-care tools in expanding access
Published in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2022
Génesis Luigi-Bravo, Roopan Kaur Gill
In this context, Venezuelans have been turning increasingly to digital tools to find information, supplies, and healthcare services, including SRH.12 Digital health is an umbrella term that refers to the use of information and communication technologies for health to advance access to universal health coverage.13 According to Váyalo Foundation, 51% of adolescents and young people in Venezuela use the internet and social media as primary sources to access SRH information.14 In addition, a diverse network of abortion hotlines in Venezuela provides information on safe medical abortion and virtual accompaniment through digital means (phone and instant messaging platforms), and the demand is considerable. In 2019, the hotline Faldas-R received a total of 1142 calls with information requests.15 Digital self-care tools could have a prominent role in facilitating information provision and strengthening accompaniment models, considering that one of people’s first contacts with SRH content, including abortion, is through the web or mobile devices.14,15
The use of digital health in heart rhythm care
Published in Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 2023
Donald P. Tchapmi, Chris Agyingi, Antoine Egbe, Gregory M. Marcus, Jean Jacques Noubiap
Digital health technologies, such as wearable devices and smartphone apps, can contribute to diagnostics, heart rhythm monitoring, patient education and shared decision making, management, medication adherence, and research. There is evidence that these digital health tools can improve various health outcomes, including in the field of arrhythmia. Digital health technologies play a pivotal role in diagnosing and monitoring arrhythmias. Besides conventional heart rhythm monitoring devices such as Holter, telemetry, external and internal loop recorders, new handheld devices, wearables patches, smartphones, and smartwatches offer opportunities for arrhythmia screening, especially in low-risk individuals. Smartphone applications have also been developed for the education of patients, to assist them in decision making, and to improve their management, including medication adherence, preprocedural planning, and patient rehabilitation. Digital health technologies also bring unprecedented opportunities for large-scale studies in the population and clinical settings. Despite these remarkable advances, important challenges remain in integrating digital health technologies into healthcare systems. Some of these challenges include insufficient data regarding optimal integration to positively affect clinically relevant outcomes, concerns about patient privacy, system interoperability, physician liability for assessing data provided by wearables, difficulties in analyzing real-time information from wearables and incorporating them into electronic medical records, and reimbursement for digital health services.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography Exploring Women’s Views of Why It Exists and Persists
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2020
Wafa Elamin, Amanda J. Mason-Jones
Using appropriate forms of media outlets can help dissemination information widely. Opportunities with digital health technologies exist. Building dedicated technology platforms, targeted at individuals who have access to and regularly use basic mobile phones, may be one potential solution. These platforms can educate users about FGM/C: why it exists, its harmful consequences, and what can be done to prevent the problem for future generations. Men and women can engage with mobile technologies privately and without being recognized by their peers. Leveraging such innovations can be advantageous as FGM/C remains a sensitive subject both in African countries and among migrant populations in the Western world. All solutions should be adapted to the languages of their target audience and tailored to suit the settings and needs of these communities.
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