Integrated Care’s New Protagonist: The Expanding Role of Digital Health

Digital health technologies hold significant promise to advance both functional and normative health and social care integration. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a window of opportunity to rapidly advance the adoption of digital solutions which can improve activities that support integration at cl...

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Autor principal:	Carolyn Steele Gray
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2021
Materias:	digital health implementation integrated care system transformation Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:492ed700dda04561ad7e7d20dd1837252021-11-08T08:08:08ZIntegrated Care’s New Protagonist: The Expanding Role of Digital Health1568-415610.5334/ijic.6437https://doaj.org/article/492ed700dda04561ad7e7d20dd1837252021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ijic.org/articles/6437https://doaj.org/toc/1568-4156Digital health technologies hold significant promise to advance both functional and normative health and social care integration. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a window of opportunity to rapidly advance the adoption of digital solutions which can improve activities that support integration at clinical, professional, organizational and system levels. Global examples demonstrate how the pandemic has also created opportunities to use technology to address core values of integrated care like person-centredness and coordination. However, rapid and reactive changes could lead to increased fragmentation and exacerbate health inequity. This perspective paper outlines some of the opportunities and threats to advancing integrated care presented by the rapid adoption of digital health tools, suggesting we maintain a long view to ensure the stage we set today will mean greater integration tomorrow.Carolyn Steele GrayUbiquity Pressarticledigital healthimplementationintegrated caresystem transformationMedicine (General)R5-920ENInternational Journal of Integrated Care, Vol 21, Iss 4 (2021)
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description	Digital health technologies hold significant promise to advance both functional and normative health and social care integration. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a window of opportunity to rapidly advance the adoption of digital solutions which can improve activities that support integration at clinical, professional, organizational and system levels. Global examples demonstrate how the pandemic has also created opportunities to use technology to address core values of integrated care like person-centredness and coordination. However, rapid and reactive changes could lead to increased fragmentation and exacerbate health inequity. This perspective paper outlines some of the opportunities and threats to advancing integrated care presented by the rapid adoption of digital health tools, suggesting we maintain a long view to ensure the stage we set today will mean greater integration tomorrow.
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Integrated Care’s New Protagonist: The Expanding Role of Digital Health

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