
Farhad FatehiUniversity of Queensland | UQ
Farhad Fatehi
MD MScIH PhD FIAHSI
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Introduction
Experienced Research Fellow in Digital Health with a demonstrated history of working in various managerial positions in the higher education industry. Skilled in Research Design, Literature Reviews, Health Promotion, Healthcare Information Technology (HIT), and eHealth. Strong research professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Telemedicine from The University of Queensland.
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January 2020 - May 2020
Education
October 2010 - December 2014
October 2005 - October 2006
January 1988 - September 1997
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Publications (162)
Planning a research strategy and formulating the right research questions at various stages of developing a telehealth intervention are essential for producing scientific evidence. The aim of research at each stage should correspond to the maturity of the intervention and will require a variety of study designs. Although there are several published...
The terms 'telemedicine', 'telehealth' and 'e-health' are often used interchangeably. We examined the occurrence of these terms in the Scopus database. A total of 11,644 documents contained one of the three terms in the title or abstract. Telemedicine was the most common term, with 8028 documents referring to it, followed by e-health (n = 2573) and...
Background
The Princess Alexandra Hospital Telehealth Centre (PAH-TC) is a project jointly funded by the Australian national government and Queensland Health. It seeks to provide a whole-of-hospital telehealth service using videoconferencing and store-and-forward capabilities for a range of specialities. The aim of this study was to investigate whe...
We conducted a scoping review of the literature on the clinical applications of videoconferencing. Electronic searches were performed using the PubMed, Embase and CINHAL databases to retrieve papers published from 2002 to 2012 that described clinical applications of videoconferencing. The initial search yielded 4923 records and after removing the d...
A large proportion of diabetes patients do not receive a basic minimum of standard care. Telemedicine holds the promise of improving access to health care. However, the validity of remote consultation for diabetes has not been well researched. This pilot randomized control trial was designed to evaluate the agreement on prescription decisions of en...
Background
Opioid medications are important for pain management, but many patients progress to unsafe medication use. With few personalized and accessible behavioral treatment options to reduce potential opioid-related harm, new and innovative patient-centered approaches are urgently needed to fill this gap.
Objective
This study involved the first...
Background
The rehabilitation process for cognitive disorders is long and complex, which can lead to reduced rehabilitation outcomes and reduced quality improvement. Thus, there is a need to use new methods to boost conventional rehabilitation (e.g., drug therapy, herbal therapy, paper, and pencil tasks). Innovations such as RehaCom can be helpful...
Introduction
Recent advancements in generative AI, exemplified by ChatGPT, hold promise for healthcare applications such as decision-making support, education, and patient engagement. However, rigorous evaluation is crucial to ensure reliability and safety in clinical contexts. This scoping review explores ChatGPT’s role in clinical inquiry, focusi...
BACKGROUND
Providing clinical guidelines to clinicians using innovative technologies seems practical and useful. This study aimed to design, develop, and evaluate a smartphone application to assist urologists in managing bladder cancer (BCM App).
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The study was conducted in three phases, following the user-centered design mode...
Objectives: The spread of misinformation through the internet can lead to dangerous behavioral changes and erode trust in reliable sources, especially during public health crises like coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). To combat this issue, innovative strategies that leverage information technology are essential. This study focused on developing...
Childhood provides a critical opportunity for the development of healthy behaviours and the prevention of chronic diseases. Children with higher levels of health literacy are more likely to make informed health decisions. In Iran, health literacy has been included in national policies, but most interventions and research have focused on adults. As...
Chatbots can effect large-scale behaviour change because they are accessible through social media, flexible, scalable, and gather data automatically. Yet research on the feasibility and effectiveness of chatbot-administered behaviour change interventions is sparse. The effectiveness of established behaviour change interventions when implemented in...
Background:
Telehealth uptake will remain sub-optimal without consumer trust. Safeguarding the security and privacy of health information plays an important role in building trust and acceptance of telehealth.
Objectives:
This study seeks to unpack the sociotechnical discourses on the use of telehealth with a focus on privacy and security in the...
BACKGROUND
Few personalized, behavioral treatments are available to reduce opioid-related harm for patients with chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP).
OBJECTIVE
We report on the second co-design phase of a digital brief intervention (BI) based on patient and health professional preferences.
METHODS
Eligible patients with CNCP (N = 18; 10 females; Mage...
BACKGROUND
Opioid medications are important for pain management, but many patients progress to unsafe medication use. With few personalized and accessible behavioral treatment options to reduce potential opioid-related harm, new and innovative patient-centered approaches are urgently needed to fill this gap.
OBJECTIVE
This study involved the first...
Background
Due to spread of smart phones, opportunity to train patients with diabetes and communicate with them using social media is rising. Aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of training through two popular social networks in Iran (“Telegram” and “Soroush”) and the metabolic control of people with Type 2 diabetes.
Methods
In this rando...
We aimed to map the topics and trends of research on digital health for myocardial infarction over the past ten years. This can inform future research directions and newly emerging topics for myocardial infarction care, diagnosis and monitoring. The Web of Science database was searched for papers related to digital health for myocardial infarction....
Background
Patients with heart failure often suffer from sleep disorders. Due to the side effects of medications used to treat this disorder, non-pharmacological methods may be used to improve these patients’ sleep quality. This study aimed to determine the effect of a sports application on sleep quality in patients with heart failure.
Methods
In...
Introduction: The emergency department is amongst the most important parts of the hospital, which has a great impact on the performance of other departments. In this regard, Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) plays a vital role in providing effective and appropriate healthcare services.Material and Methods: To evaluate the user-perceive...
Abstract
Introduction
Despite the fact that telemedicine can eliminate geographical and time limitations and offer the possibility of diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases by sharing reliable information, many individuals still prefer to visit medical centers for in-person consultations. The aim of this study was to determine the level of a...
Background
Myocardial infarction (MI) is a debilitating condition and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Digital health is a promising approach for delivering secondary prevention to support patients with a history of MI and for reducing risk factors that can lead to a future event. However, its potential can only be fulfilled wh...
Introduction
Mobile health (mHealth) is using mobile devices and applications to deliver health information and services. mHealth has been increasingly applied in cancer care to support patients in various aspects of their disease journey. This scoping review aimed to explore the current evidence on the use of mHealth interventions for cancer patie...
Background
Everyday, nursing students interact with culturally diverse clients. Nursing education recognizes that cultural competence is a necessary outcome of nursing programs. Nurse educators expect all nursing students to provide culturally congruent care to multicultural clients. Therefore, nurse educators must be culturally competent in order...
BACKGROUND
Myocardial infarction (MI) is a debilitating condition and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Digital health is a promising approach for delivering secondary prevention to support patients with a history of MI and for reducing risk factors that can lead to a future event. However, its potential can only be fulfilled wh...
Background
This study aimed to examine the current use of mobile phones by pregnant women and their attitudes towards the use of a variety of prenatal care services through mHealth.
Methods
This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Iran in 2021. The study population included 168 pregnant women who referred to specialist obstetrics an...
Digital health interventions - interventions delivered over digital media to support the health of users - are becoming increasingly prevalent. Utilising an intervention development framework can increase the efficacy of digital interventions for health-related behaviours. This critical review aims to outline and review novel behaviour change frame...
Background:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has potential to improve self-management of several chronic conditions. However, the perspective of patients and healthcare professionals regarding AI-enabled health management programs, which are key to successful implementation, remains poorly understood.
Purpose:
To explore the opinions of people with...
Introduction: Social media platforms provide easy access to an unprecedented volume of information which could influence the awareness and perception of people during public health crises. The current study aims to explore the trends and content of the posts on Instagram.Material and Methods: We performed a retrospective content analysis of availab...
While COVID-19 catalyzed the acceptance and use of telehealth, our understanding of how it is perceived by multi-stakeholders such as patients, clinicians, and health authorities is limited. Drawing on social media analytics, this research examines social media discourses and users’ opinions about telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. It applies...
Background:
Pandemics highlight the increasing role of information and communications technology for improving access to health care. This study aimed to present a bibliometric analysis of the concept of digital divide reported in the published articles concerning the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Methods:
To conduct this bibliom...
Medical Informatics, an emerging multidisciplinary field at the intersection of medicine, technology, and information sciences, is believed to significantly impact health and medical practice. 1 Nowadays, it is not strange to see new approaches for producing, measuring, and monitoring digital biomarkers using implantable sensors, wearable devices,...
BACKGROUND
Healthcare systems have become increasingly more reliant on a patient’s ability to navigate the digital world. However, little research has been conducted into why some communities are less able, or less likely, to successfully engage with digital health technologies (DHTs), particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD)...
Background:
Health care systems have become increasingly more reliant on patients' ability to navigate the digital world. However, little research has been conducted on why some communities are less able or less likely to successfully engage with digital health technologies (DHTs), particularly among culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) po...
Introduction
Google Trends (GT) is an important free tool for online search behavior analysis, which provides access to Internet search patterns in Google. In recent decades, this database has been used for predicting the outbreak of epidemics and pandemics in different regions of the world. The present study aimed to evaluate Iranian users’ COVID-...
BACKGROUND
Opioid medications are important in pain management. Despite this, many patients progress to unsafe medication use. With few personalized and accessible behavioral treatment options to reduce opioid-related harm, new and innovative approaches are urgently needed to fill this gap. Co-design methods offers an opportunity to put patient par...
Chatbots have the potential to effect large-scale behaviour change because they are accessible through social media, flexible, scalable, and automatically gather data. Yet research on the feasibility and effectiveness of chatbot-administered behaviour change interventions is sparse. There is no guarantee that established behaviour change interventi...
ABSTRACT
The aim of the present study is to investigate the impact of health literacy of Iranian users on the accuracy of information on COVID-19 in virtual social networks. This is applied descriptive survey. The population includes all Iranian users of virtual networks (Telegram, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram and etc.). In this study, 121 question...
Aim:
Globally, type 2 diabetes care is often fragmented and still organised in a provider-centred way, resulting in suboptimal care for many individuals. As healthcare systems seek to implement digital care innovations, it is timely to reassess stakeholders' priorities to guide the redesign of diabetes care. This study aimed to identify the needs...
Objective
Effective use of telehealth offers substantial benefits to older persons and aged care providers. However, data privacy concerns challenge the effective use of telehealth and subsequent business value. Through developing a theoretical model, we explain how privacy concerns can influence the adoption ad use of telehealth in this complex co...
Objective:
The aim of the present study was to develop and evaluate the usability of a telemedicine system for management and monitoring of patients with diabetic foot.
Methods:
This study was conducted in four phases. In the first phase, the information needs and characteristics required to design the telemedicine system were identified based o...
Background
Various questionnaires are used for evaluating satisfaction, usability, acceptance, and quality outcomes of mobile health (mHealth) services. Using the best one to meet the needs of an mHealth study is a challenge for researchers. Therefore, this study aimed to review and determine the frequently used questionnaires for evaluating the me...
Cory COVID-Bot is an artificial intelligence chatbot designed and built by a multisector collaboration to help people safely step towards COVID normal. Achieving COVID normal and avoiding unnecessary adverse health outcomes requires effective communication to the public regarding COVID safe behaviors, but reaching young, culturally and linguistical...
Diabetic foot is the most common side-effect and the most financially expensive complication of diabetes, which increases the fatality risk of diabetic patients by two to four times. Without proper medical attention, this condition can lead to a plethora of complications, including scarring, infection, gangrene, amputation, and even death. Therefor...
The Internet of Things (IOT) has led to ground-breaking changes in the healthcare industry as a promising technological solution. Yet, despite its many benefits, its application has always proven to be challenging. Hence, the purpose of this study is to identify the challenges of using the IOT with the intention of proposing a model for implementin...
Background: Diabetes is one of the most serious health challenges of the 21st century. The number of adults with diabetes has roughly tripled in the last 20 years. The increased burden of chronic diseases and scarce health resources compel healthcare systems to make modern patients more self-sufficient by requiring them to play a more active part i...
Historically, telemedicine research is predominantly published in discipline-specific telemedicine journals. However, in recent times the number of publications on telemedicine in clinical journals has increased. Acceptance of telemedicine research by clinical journals indicates a maturing of the telemedicine field. This bibliometric study reviewed...
Aims
To identify the views of people with diabetes (PWD) and healthcare professionals (HCP) about Type 2 diabetes care.
Methods
A systematic review of qualitative studies reporting both groups’ views using thematic synthesis frameworked by the eHealth Enhanced Chronic Care Model was conducted.
Results
We searched six electronic databases between...
In response to epidemics and pandemics, access to authentic sources of information plays a critical role in informing public health practices. However, infodemic, i.e., an overabundance of health information, misinformation, and disinformation, impede implementing best public health policies during a public health crisis such as COVID-19. In this b...
Background: Depression is a common mental disorder for which telehealth services can provide support. The willingness to use these solutions among patients is among factors related to the use of such solutions. The study aim was to investigate the willingness and preference of patients with depression for using telehealth solutions for depression....
Background
One of the most important prerequisites for nurses’ readiness to implement Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) is to improve their information literacy skills. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a training program on nurses’ information literacy skills for EBP in critical care units.
Methods
In this interventional study, 60 nurses wor...
Background:
Considering the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health service delivery, the US Office for Civil Rights (OCR) updated the policies on health data processing, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Objectives:
In this study, we investigated discourses on HIPAA in relation to COVID-19.
Methods:
Through a...
Background:
Mobile-based social media play an important role in the dissemination of information during public health emergencies.
Objectives:
This study aimed to analyze the contents and trends of public messages posted on Telegram during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Methods:
A content analysis of the 1781 messages, posted in...
Background
Early warning tools identify patients at risk of deterioration in hospitals. Electronic medical records in hospitals offer real-time data and the opportunity to automate early warning tools and provide real-time, dynamic risk estimates.
Objective
This review describes published studies on the development, validation, and implementation...
BACKGROUND
Early warning tools identify patients at risk of deterioration in hospitals. Electronic medical records in hospitals offer real-time data and the opportunity to automate early warning tools and provide real-time, dynamic risk estimates.
OBJECTIVE
This review describes published studies on the development, validation, and implementation...
Background
Information literacy competency is one of the requirements to implement Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) in nursing. It is necessary to pay attention to curricular development and use new educational methods such as virtual education to strengthen information literacy competency in nursing students. Given the scarcity of the studies on the...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic illustrated the significance of using telemedicine for medical services to minimize the risk of infection more than ever. The implementation of telemedicine in the realm of eye expertise (teleophthalmology) has made it possible for both ophthalmic patients and COVID-19 positive cases to be taken care...
Health data privacy is an important research stream due to the high impacts on the success of digital health transformation and implementation. Neglecting to safeguard data confidentially and integrity and mitigate risks associated with unauthorized access will lead to failures in materializing benefit from digital health. This study aims to presen...
Digital technologies are transforming the health sector all over the world, however various aspects of this emerging field of science is yet to be properly understood. Ambiguity in the definition of digital health is a hurdle for research, policy, and practice in this field. With the aim of achieving a consensus in the definition of digital health,...
ABSTRACT
The expansion of mobile health apps for the management of COVID-19 grew exponentially in recent months. However, no study has evaluated these apps. The objective of this study was to develop a reliable measure and rate the quality of COVID-19 mobile health apps, to eventually provide a roadmap for future mHealth app development. In this st...
Objective: This study aimed to characterize the representation of public health information related to COVID-19 posted on Instagram in 2020.
Methods
This qualitative content analysis study was conducted in Iran as one of the countries with the highest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19. Data were collected from the contents published from Febru...
Background
Effective digital social capital interventions have great potential to establish trusted social pathways to access supportive services and to enable talking about issues contributing to distress.
Aim
This review explores the digital social capital interventions used in individuals with social skills deficits, and the best social health...
Background: Information literacy is one of the important prerequisites for an effective evidence-based practice (EBP). Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to curricular development and use new educational methods such as virtual education to strengthen information literacy competency in nursing students. This study investigated the effect o...
: The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a substantial impetus for the rapid expansion of digital health services worldwide. With the rule of social distancing and quarantine following the outbreak of coronavirus infection in many countries, special attention has been made to telecardiology as one of the best alternatives to traditional in-person cardi...
Background:
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a severe chronic condition associated with poor quality of life and high risks of mortality and hospitalisation. The utilisation of novel diagnostic technologies has improved survival rates although the effectiveness of Electronic Health (eHealth) interventions in patients with a chronic cardiop...
Background and objectives
The ability of health care providers and students to use EMRs efficiently can lead to achieving improved clinical outcomes. Training policies and strategies play a major role in successful technology implementation and ongoing use of the EMR systems. To provide evidence-based guidance for developing and implementing educat...
Background
With the introduction of privacy regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective data protection in mobile health (mHealth) is rapidly becoming a concern. However, we have a limited understanding of the contexts and mechanisms that affect the likelihood o...
General Data Protection Regulation came into effect across the European Union in May 2018 but its implications in healthcare are yet to be fully understood. The aim of this study was to identify the fronts and hot topics in research on GDPR in healthcare. We analyzed the relevant records in Scopus through bibliometric and scientometric approach and...
Virtual reality (VR) has become an interesting alternative for the treatment of social phobia. This scoping review explored the impact of VR technologies in the treatment of social phobia (25 papers were included). Treatment approaches to social phobia included virtual reality exposure therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, exposure group therapy, i...
Concerns about the prevention and management of COVID-19 are on the rise, as it is crucial in contagious epidemics that travel and transfer of the patients be minimal for diagnosis, treatment, and follow-ups. Telemedicine or telehealth can play an important role, especially with previous successful experiences in the management of acute infectious...
Background:
Monitoring and evaluations of digital health (DH) solutions for the management of chronic diseases are quite heterogeneous and evidences around evaluating frameworks are inconsistent. An evidenced-based framework is needed to inform the evaluation process and rationale of such interventions. We aimed to explore the nature, extent and c...
BACKGROUND
As the use of smartphones and mobile apps is increasing, mobile health (mHealth) can be used as a cost-effective option to provide behavioral interventions aimed at educating and promoting self-management for chronic diseases such as diabetes. Although the goal of many existing programs is the same, they usually do not follow the guideli...
Background
As the use of smartphones and mobi