Digital Health: The Future of Healthcare
In a recent episode of the "Let's Get Literal" podcast, host Katrina Otto discussed the concept of digital health and its impact on modern healthcare. Digital health is an interdisciplinary field that combines technology and healthcare, including aspects such as mHealth apps, EHRs, EMRs, wearable devices, telehealth, and telemedicine. The importance of digital health has grown in recent years due to global concerns like aging, child illness, epidemics, high costs, and racial discrimination in healthcare.
Key Points
- Understanding Digital Health Technologies: Digital health plays a significant role in modern healthcare, with stakeholders including patients, practitioners, researchers, and manufacturers. Clinicians and healthcare customers must understand digital health technologies to provide and receive optimal care.
- Challenges in Implementing Digital Health: Implementing, sustainably using, and spreading digital health enablers in healthcare often face challenges beyond the technology itself. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in healthcare, with telehealth and patient-facing tools like online symptom checkers and remote monitoring gaining importance.
- Primary Barriers: The primary barriers to digital health adoption are people, both healthcare users and patients, who experience the technology. AI, big data, robotics, and machine learning contribute to major digital healthcare changes, with ingestible sensors, robotic caregivers, and monitoring devices emerging.
- Health Outcomes and Patient Experience (HOPE) Platform: The HOPE platform is a secure web-based tool for housing and managing Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) collected across the care continuum. This platform is available at no financial cost to all GPs and nurses working in general practice and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organizations (ACCHOs).
- Patient-Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) and Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs): PROMs capture the patient's perspective about how illness or care impacts their health and well-being, while PREMs capture the patient's perception of their experience with health care or services.
- Security and Access: Users of the HOPE platform will require a Service NSW authentication process to access it, ensuring data security.
Digital Health Innovations
Digital health innovations aim to save time, increase accuracy and efficiency, and merge technologies in new ways in healthcare. The global digital health market is expected to reach $833.44 billion by 2027, with a CAGR of 27.9% from 2020 to 2027. IoMT is a significant innovation, combining medical devices and applications with health IT systems, and includes telemedicine, smart sensors, and other technologies.
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