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Asked 11th Aug, 2022
What challenges still lie ahead for Healthcare’s Digital Transformation?
While I am crossing two paths, such as medicine and technology, I see that there are often barriers to understanding the two, but I want to know from the researchers who deal with both what challenges still exist.
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I am not a researcher, but dealing with policy formulation and strategy design in the context of digital transformation of health systems. Among what I have observed almost consistently over time, there is a lot of naivety: on site of technocrats as it concerns the complexity and "maturity" of the health care delivery system, on side of health professionals the expectation, technology would fix their problems ..., compounded by a lack of patience of politicians, policy makers and the industry.
Understanding 'maturity' of health systems for applying digital technologies is a key factor for designing systems that work. See for example:
Carvalho, J. V., Rocha, Á., van de Wetering, R., & Abreu, A. (2019). A Maturity model for hospital information systems. Journal of Business Research, 94, 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.012
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Predictive Simulation Analytics Pty Ltd
Improving data quality and literacy.
Using modelling to use data to improve healthcare delivery.
Developing methods to use data.
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Airlangga University
Health & Technology are two main topics that emerge to be gather in certain occasions. These two very close to an entrepreneurship efforts, so if you see barriers, one that so powerfull to get through the great ideas to perform, are just executing them elegantly. Even problems of fundings, is not so problematic actually, the only essential problem is on the level of concept. if we design low concept, that will definitely be the biggest inhibitant.
Performing Healthtechnology in Indonesia, also need to Collaboration i'm the secretary general of an association Healthtech.id then it would empower our steps aswell.
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Niko Azhari Hidayat
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Nord University
I find the institutional logics perspective helpful to understand the barriers between health care and ICT. There are some research done in this field, a search on "institutional logic*" and "healt care" combined with "ICT" / "tehnology" / "information systems" can give you som interesting input here.
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KOS Group
The digitalization of healthcare has advantages for improving healthcare, such as saving time and improving monitoring, but it also poses many challenges both in terms of the regulatory framework, particularly regarding the protection of privacy, and because it requires shared skills between the service provider and the user of that health service. The latter is often an elderly, chronic subject with sensory and cognitive disabilities. So, it is necessary to envision a person, which could be the family nurse, as a digital mediator.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
I am not a researcher, but dealing with policy formulation and strategy design in the context of digital transformation of health systems. Among what I have observed almost consistently over time, there is a lot of naivety: on site of technocrats as it concerns the complexity and "maturity" of the health care delivery system, on side of health professionals the expectation, technology would fix their problems ..., compounded by a lack of patience of politicians, policy makers and the industry.
Understanding 'maturity' of health systems for applying digital technologies is a key factor for designing systems that work. See for example:
Carvalho, J. V., Rocha, Á., van de Wetering, R., & Abreu, A. (2019). A Maturity model for hospital information systems. Journal of Business Research, 94, 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.12.012
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