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Before the 1990s, the medication prescription process was quite different from what it is today:

The medication prescription process Nneoma Prisca Ezechinyere-Opara before the 1990s was characterized by more traditional practices, limited patient engagement, and less access to information and technology compared to contemporary standards. The evolution of healthcare, influenced by advancements in technology and a shift toward patient-centered care, has significantly transformed the approach to medication prescribing in recent decades.

First, many health researchers use the socioecological in qualitative research. Start by scanning the recent literature to compare and contrast uses. Secondly, decide the use of the model, from supporting research formation and direction to being highly deductive. One must align with one's purpose but also the selected research tradition. Please give specific questions.

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health

I've had some queries regarding the proposal submission I've mailed to all editors regarding the same. I'm yet to get any reply

Just imagine that when a new medical technology was invented and entered mainstream medicine, such as x rays, physicians would refuse to learn it, by some reason, including a phobia about the new, or skepticism about its usefulness, or still just plain rejection or laziness to learn and understand it. This is happening for some time, now, although digital health is not even new. With new techologies such as AI, 3D printing, big data, etc, constantly entering and being adopted, that students and physicians and nurses are doing exactly that, and tha health sciences schools are not including this teaching into their ancient and obsolete curricula! And this is happening, So, this is a bizarre situation and we must urgently implement educational programs about these essential and required new tools of medicine, but unfortunately one of the stumbling block is that we do not have trained and willing instructors in sufficient numbers. Thanks for the question, Prof. Luiz Roberto de Oliveira

Dear Abhishek Rajput,

my figures (fig. 5 and fig. 6) at the address:

partially answered your question.

Best regards

Anatol Badach

Dear CEO Dr. Gotsadze!'

I made an effort to find value-added resources for YOU. Please see the studies below:

Mohamed, S., Dunnett, S., Flores, A. et al. A Principles Framework for Digital Provision of Medical Information for Healthcare Professionals. Pharm Med 37, 103–109 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-023-00464-0, Quote:

"...MILE (Medical Information Leaders in Europe). Technology Benchmarking Survey—2021. 2022. https://www.mile-association.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/MILE-2021-technology-benchmarking-survey-summary-for-website.pdf. Accessed 15 Feb 2023.", .....MILE seeks further feedback and discussion with regulators, industry associations.....", Open access:

An additional article you might want to look at is:

Silberman, J., Wicks, P., Patel, S. et al. Rigorous and rapid evidence assessment in digital health with the evidence DEFINED framework. npj Digit. Med. 6, 101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00836-5,

Open access: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-023-00836-5

3) A case study: Alvarez-Romero, C., Martínez-García, A., Bernabeu-Wittel, M. et al. Health data hubs: an analysis of existing data governance features for research. Health Res Policy Sys 21, 70 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01026-1, Open access:

4) A case study: Lindsey M. Philpot, Sagar B. Dugani, Abhinav Singla, Meredith DeZutter, Jon O. Ebbert, Digital Care Horizon: A Framework for Extending Health Care Through Digital Transformation, Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2023, Open access:

Hope you find new partners, and ideas from within the articles above!

Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely

Blockchain is one such technology which can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of global digital health system by injecting the trust and ensuring the privacy and security aspect into the system through its characteristics, advantages, and potential applications.

Frank Dzidula, who are you targeting? Exterior or interior customers? Based on your answer, there might be applied different strategies on lead generation, conversions, product /prototype launches, networking models/types, engagement, education, communication, dissemination, and ROI. Lead generation may be one of the most important for digital health services. Here are my suggestions: (1) continuous video marketing, (2) a solid social media presence focused on your targets, (3) online ads, (4) a social blog to create and maintain your brand ... and be visible!

No I don't.

I'm so sorry.

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:

Is there a specific view of security you are thinking of, or is this just a wide and general question?

Thinking of security with respect to network/cyber attacks, then Electroni Health Records simply inherit the same deep learning techniques that can be applied to any networked systems/applications (perhaps with some diffeent 'value' calclulations as to the monetary expression of the damage done in such an attack).

If this question is about privacy concerns and data use - who has access to and whwo uses your data, then mostly the access controlls and logging of data access are within the EHR applications themselves (EHR, personal health record or any system/application that looks after health information).

The are also in some networked environments with multiple actors, there are audit logs that can be inspected (the IHE ATNA being an example). I know of a few real world examples (but with no accademic publications) where such logs were inspected and the evidence of un-authorised access (or miss use of authorised access) was proven. Since this activity is looking for patterns in a log file (or set of log files with some correlation) then this looks to me exactly like the kind of problem that deeo learning could be applied to. Note "who" is looking at "what" data implies you need to know the identities of the "who" in a real world context that would confirm or deny that they are allowed to look at "whatever-it-is".

In private healthcare based economies, your insurance premiums are based on your declared health. Health insurance companies may use deep learning tools in analysis of their customers health records - but this is ouutside of my experience and it is of course linked to the legality of doing this (which I am surer varies from country to country).

Effectively though, this kind of deep learning would ook like a specialisation of the kind of deep learning applied to fraud (specialised for healthcare insurance premiums and delcarations).

I am sure there are other areras. Computer architecture that results in multiple copies of healthcare data items and records leads to ambiguity in records - where is the source of truth. You can see how in the above fraud example any ambiguity might lead to loopholes for fraudulent activity or put a consumer in a position where they find it difficult to prove their health records. I am not sure if deep learning would be applicable here, when inspection of the architeture would tell you about this potential-duplicates problem.

Your question seems quite wide, I hope my contribution is useful for you and I haven't missed the poiont of your question.

Digital technology has been a revolutionary foray in various sectors and domains like education, industry, research, and recently, healthcare. The concept of digital health is an evolving entity and has gained tremendous importance in the time of the Pandemic with social distancing and lockdowns forcing the entire globe to adopt digital health and health technologies on a large scale. The digital health concept was first introduced in 2000 by Seth Fran, which largely encompasses internet-based applications and media to enhance medical subject matter, commerce, and connectivity. With the advancement in technology, digital health has expanded to encompass a much wider set of scientific concepts and technologies, including the internet of things, big data technology, artificial intelligence techniques, genomics, analytics, wearables, mobile applications, and telemedicine. The various domains of digital health have been explained by WHO in 2018.

With the advancement in digital health and literacy rate in the country, The Government of India laid importance on digitalization in India’s healthcare sector in the National Health Policy, 2017 using The National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) which can act as the foundation on which national digital health ecosystem can be built. On the occasion of the 74th Independence Day, the Government of India embarked on its journey to achieve Universal Health Coverage by launching the National Digital Health Mission.

NDHM aims to build a holistic, integrated, and comprehensive digital health ecosystem that will lay the foundation of a strong public digital infrastructure, digitally empower individuals, patients, health care staff, health institutions, and aid streamline the healthcare delivery system of the country. This will help inequitable, affordable, and accessible health care to all. It may be useful for health planners and policymakers as well in monitoring and surveillance of health-related events better and in an efficient way.

Dear colleagues, thank you very much for your initiative. I will distribute your call in my network. It might be a good idea to use the Netzwerk Technikfolgenabschätzung to reach out to more experts. Best regards Karsten Weber

Hope, the sufficient and huge data has been collected and organised with respect to their aspect (Health) . Further, most of the health related projects are long term projects and also need very huge investment. The other human assisted AI technologies will rule next decade ( it is better to focus here) . Overall, many health related projects have their own period. Hope other initiatives will be started from Google and Apple.

Hopefully the insights/views as per the following papers could provide you ideas for your research topic, namely: see those future research directions (Khezr et al, 2019, pp. 19-20; Marques and Ferreira, 2020, p. 583; Tandon et al, 2020; Secinaro et al, 2021, p. 20).

I recently created a list of digital health journals. Please see below:

Very interesting topic!

Maybe you want to consult this recent review by Davaris et al.:

Further, there has been some recent research on sexual health literacy:

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Call For Paper

August 2021

Link: https://ojs3.unpatti.ac.id/index.php/jppgi2019

According to the research paper, this approach fits under health apps since it is covering all patients.

As far as I conceive this question, it's for front line health workers who work in the health department. Their job profile is also to collect information/data in the community whose health is at stake. If they are illtreated then the quality of data will be poor and that effects planning and to imparting health services . So , it's essentially important to take care of these managers and in turn the quality information will be available in such settings.

John Tredinnick-Rowe we've recently published a review of the most used frameworks in assessing technology adoption in healthcare, including a gap analysis and a suggested aggregated framework covering all relevant factors, thought you might find it relevant

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Mario,

I have written about adoption of digital health innovation in the UK system. The NHS has significant challenges in adopting digital innovation due to fragmentation of organisations and the poor interface with social care. I know that the US system is also fragmented due to its' commercial nature. The book has a website where I linked to all of the references:

I hope this is helpful.

Adam

Christine Jacob very interesting!

Agree with Emre Sezgin and Nabil Zary , engaging the users in the constant development of eHealth tools is crucial for their sustainability and success, by listening to the users, providers can ensure that their tools will stay useful and relevant.

Both ways.

Emily Treichler - I haven't been able to get hold of RIAS yet. A colleague informed me that it is no longer accessible. Will continue to search.

There isnt any

I am just authoring

How to get the best from your GP practice to try to fill this gap!

I believe that the need for health services in developing countries is still bigger than the need for privacy, people are still looking into filling gaps in healthcare as a basic step, and probably once fulfilled they will start looking into privacy and security, that's my personal interpretation of the main factors influencing the lack of research in this area...

Dearr Luis,

I hope these references are useful in relation to eHealth resources.

James

References:

Sarfo, J.O. & Asiedu, M. (2013). Ehealth Efficacy in Ghanian Nursing: A Pilot Thematic Analysis on Benefits and Challenges. European Scientific Journal, 9(23), 1857 – 7881. https://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/viewFile/1682/1730

Black AD, Car J, Pagliari C, Anandan C, Cresswell K, et al. (2011) The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview. PLoS Med 8(1): e1000387. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387

Oh et al (2005). What Is eHealth (3): A Systematic Review of Published Definitions. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 7(1),e1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550636/

Catwell L, Sheikh A (2009) Evaluating eHealth Interventions: The Need for Continuous Systemic Evaluation. PLoS Med. 6(8): e1000126. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000126

Catwell L, Sheikh A (2009) Evaluating eHealth Interventions: The Need for Continuous Systemic Evaluation. PLoS Med 6(8): e1000126. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000126

Black AD, Car J, Pagliari C, Anandan C, Cresswell K, et al. (2011) The Impact of eHealth on the Quality and Safety of Health Care: A Systematic Overview. PLoS Med 8(1): e1000387. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387

Richards et al (2005). Remote working: survey of attitudes to eHealth of doctors and nurses in rural general practices in the United Kingdom. Family Practice, 22(1), 2–7.

To stakeholders, this information is directed so that health policies are designed towards a more effective and integral management, administering the ICT’s as tools for the well-being of most the Panamanian population, including indigenous group.

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Hi there!

As far as I read, you have two main questions:

1st. Books about statistical models:

If you are a R lover (like me) you will enjoy these books:

If you are very new to R, the first one is awesome.

2nd. Does it much important to explain to readers the class of statistical model I have used ?

I'm reviewer of several scientific journals and my answer is YES (yes, with capital letters! :) ), because data analysis must be replicable, I mean, you need to include and explain all the details you need to perform the analysis, if some details are missing or not included, the analysis would not be replicable. In some scientific journals, you can attach the syntax, in others, if you need to explain a lot of details, you can include it as supplementary material.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Merche Ovejero

mHealth, access to health information and the uptake of such information among your target group/s.

Read the book; Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future by Suzanne W. Morse and published by Jossey-Bass. She is very thorough in defining smart communities.

With the contributions of all the RG colleagues on our question early this year 2016 on e-health, we were able to produce the attached paper on the concept maturity of e-health. Hope this paper give a better understanding for the current status of this concept.

Regards to all

Hi Srikanta

Very good all links indicated by  Aamir https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aamir_Memon2 !

You can try too:

WHO: http://www.who.int/en/

SciELO South Africa: http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_home&lng=en&nrm=iso

I would argue that a digital intervention targeting behavior change should be evaluated no differently than human-interaction based studies. That said, a couple of additional markers may be studied concerning ease of use, perceived value in the interaction, and logistics.

I am attaching links to a couple papers I wrote a while ago about behavior change methods for disease management. These approaches should be implemented in the intervention, whether by human or device.

I hope this helps

Ariel