Digital health at fifteen: more human (more needed)

Abstract There is growing appreciation that the success of digital health – whether digital tools, digital interventions or technology-based change strategies – is linked to the extent to which human factors are considered throughout design, development and implementation. A shift in focus to individuals as users and consumers of digital health highlights the capacity of the field to respond to secular developments, such as the adoption of person-centred care and consumer health technologies. We argue that this project is not only incomplete, but is fundamentally ‘uncompletable’ in the face of a highly dynamic landscape of both technological and human challenges. These challenges include the effects of consumerist, technology-supported care on care delivery, the rapid growth of digital users in low-income and middle-income countries and the impacts of machine learning. Digital health research will create most value by retaining a clear focus on the role of human factors in maximising health benefit, by helping health systems to anticipate and understand the person-centred effects of technology changes and by advocating strongly for the autonomy, rights and safety of consumers..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

BMC medicine - 17(2019), 1 vom: 18. März

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huckvale, Kit [VerfasserIn]
Wang, C. Jason [VerfasserIn]
Majeed, Azeem [VerfasserIn]
Car, Josip [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Digital health
EHealth
Ergonomics
Human factors
Machine learning
Person-centred care

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© The Author(s). 2019

doi:

10.1186/s12916-019-1302-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC2099736847