scholarly journals The future of pharmacy is intertwined with digital health innovation

2021 ◽  
pp. 171516352110444
Author(s):  
Peter Chengming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals A Digital Health Innovation to Prevent Relapse and Support Recovery in Youth Receiving Specialized Services for First-Episode Psychosis: Protocol for a Pilot Pre-Post, Mixed Methods Study of Horyzons-Canada (Phase 2) (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shalini Lal ◽  
John F Gleeson ◽  
Simon D'Alfonso ◽  
Geraldine Etienne ◽  
Ridha Joober ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
First Episode Psychosis ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Potential Efficacy ◽  
Episode Psychosis ◽  
Support Recovery

BACKGROUND Psychotic disorders are among the most disabling of all mental disorders. The first-episode psychosis (FEP) often occurs during adolescence or young adulthood. Young people experiencing FEP often face multiple barriers in accessing a comprehensive range of psychosocial services, which have predominantly been delivered in person. New models of service delivery that are accessible, sustainable, and engaging are needed to support recovery in youth diagnosed with FEP. OBJECTIVE In this paper, we describe a protocol to implement and evaluate the acceptability, safety, and potential efficacy of an online psychosocial therapeutic intervention designed to sustain recovery and prevent relapses in young adults diagnosed with FEP. This intervention was originally developed and tested in Australia and has been adapted for implementation and evaluation in Canada and is called Horyzons-Canada (HoryzonsCa). METHODS This cohort study is implemented in a single-center and applies a pre-post mixed methods (qualitative-quantitative convergent) design. The study involves recruiting 20 participants from a specialized early intervention program for psychosis located in Montreal, Canada and providing them with access to the HoryzonsCa intervention for 8 weeks. Data collection includes interview-based psychometric measures, self-reports, focus groups, and interviews. RESULTS This study received funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (United States), the Quebec Health Research Funding Agency (Canada), and the Canada Research Chairs Program. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Board of the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Ouest-de-l'Île-de-Montréal on April 11, 2018 (#IUSMD 17-54). Data were collected from August 16, 2018, to April 29, 2019, and a final sample of 20 individuals participated in the baseline and follow-up interviews, among which 9 participated in the focus groups. Data analysis and reporting are in process. The results of the study will be submitted for publication in 2021. CONCLUSIONS This study will provide preliminary evidence on the acceptability, safety, and potential efficacy of using a digital health innovation adapted for the Canadian context to deliver specialized mental health services to youth diagnosed with FEP. CLINICALTRIAL ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN43182105; https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN43182105 INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT RR1-10.2196/28141

scholarly journals Digital Health-Enabled Community-Centered Care (D-CCC): A Scalable Model to Empower Future Community Health Workers utilizing Human-in-the-Loop AI

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah M. Rodrigues ◽  
Anil Kanduri ◽  
Adeline M. Nyamathi ◽  
Nikil Dutt ◽  
Pramod P. Khargonekar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Human In The Loop ◽  
Collaborative Community ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Future ◽  
Centered Care

AbstractDigital Health-Enabled Community-Centered Care (D-CCC) represents a pioneering vision for the future of community-centered care. Utilizing an artificial intelligence-enabled closed-loop digital health platform designed for, and with, community health workers, D-CCC enables timely and individualized delivery of interventions by community health workers to the communities they serve. D-CCC has the potential to transform the current landscape of manual, episodic and restricted community health worker-delivered care and services into an expanded, digitally interconnected and collaborative community-centered health and social care ecosystem which centers around a digitally empowered community health workforce of the future.

scholarly journals Designing the future of talking therapy: Using digital health to improve outcomes in psychosis

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardy Amy ◽  
Garety Philippa ◽  
Freeman Daniel ◽  
Kuipers Elizabeth ◽  
Harding Helen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
The Future

A Pharmaco-cybernetics Approach to Designing an Oncology Drug Interaction Database for Clinical Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-227
Keyword(s):  
Drug Interaction ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
User Feedback ◽  
Clinical Usefulness ◽  
Health Innovation ◽  
Interaction Database ◽  
Oncology Practice

This chapter describes how OncoRx-MI, a pharmaco-informatics platform for detecting chemotherapy interactions, was designed through a pharmaco-cybernetics approach targeting the 5 activities of the digital health innovation process. This is the first database of its kind that is able to provide interaction information for anticancer drugs and chemotherapy regimen cocktails. In order to identify the gap and determine the usefulness of this database in clinical oncology practice, the quality of online anticancer drug interactions was assessed, and the perceptions of oncology practitioners were sought. The results showed that the accuracy of drug interaction content and the clinical usefulness of the database was highly regarded by these practitioners. In addition, evidence of its relevance and credibility was demonstrated through user feedback on the database.

Re-imagining Digital Care and Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth ◽  
Kana Ohashi ◽  
Jolynna Sinanan ◽  
Sarah Pink ◽  
Heather Horst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Mobile App ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
The Future ◽  
Silver Bullet

In Chapter 8 we turn to Co-futuring Kinship—the ways in which past and present practices inform how the future of the kinship for care at a distance. This is particularly important for “super-aging” contexts like Japan in which one in three is of 80 years old. Chapter 8 sets the picture for discussion around digital health in which mobile media is fully imbricated in. Discussions around a “silver bullet” in the form of a mobile app still dominate despite the fact that there is much work into the need for social, rather than technological, solutions.

Securing the Future of Digital Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Paul Cerrato ◽  
John Halamka
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
The Future

What is the value of digital health?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Jani
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Tertiary Prevention ◽  
Resource Utilisation ◽  
Market Place ◽  
True Value ◽  
The Future ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Eu Commission ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The panellist Anant Jani will discuss about: What is the value of digital health? There is much hope and hype surrounding the potentially transformative effect that digital health tools can have in health and care systems but it is very difficult to ascertain the true value that digital health tools currently deliver or could deliver in the future. Compounding this uncertainty is the diverse, large and ever-changing digital health landscape - there are currently over 300,000 health and care apps on the market place in comparison to the less than 2000 drugs health and care systems normally have to deal with. In this session, we highlight how the quadruple value framework, recently endorsed by the EU Commission, can be used to help rationalize the digital health ecosystem by promoting the interventions that have the greatest potential to promote primary, secondary or tertiary prevention while optimising resource utilisation.

scholarly journals Opinion leader empowered patients about the era of digital health: a qualitative study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e025267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertalan Meskó ◽  
Nóra Radó ◽  
Zsuzsa Győrffy
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Opinion Leader ◽  
Patient Relationship ◽  
Physician Patient Relationship ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
Physician Patient

ObjectivesWe aimed to explore the opinion leader empowered patients’ relationship with their medical professionals, their experiences and beliefs about technologies, and how they see the future. We also attempted to determine whether technologies, the access to it or patient empowerment are the main driving forces behind these changes.DesignA qualitative interview study analysed with interpretative phenomenological analysis.SettingAll interviews were conducted and recorded individually with the same trained interviewer via a Skype call.ParticipantsThe study is based on qualitative, semistructured interviews with 11 opinion leader empowered patients from six countries including UK, USA, Australia, Sweden, South Africa and Ireland.ResultsWe identified four superordinate themes emerging from e-patients’ experiences: (1) impact of technology, (2) the meaning of empowerment, (3) the changing physician–patient relationship and (4) expectations for the future. The relationship e-patients have with their physicians is based on efficient communication, proactivity, the desire for asking questions and the use of technologies. The interviews have shown that the rapid development of technology has fundamentally changed the lives of these e-patients, and technology eventually is transforming the physician–patient relationship into a partnership. Regarding the future of the physician–patient partnership, e-patients emphasised that change will rather be cultural than technological.ConclusionsThe interviews have shown that cooperation between technology and healthcare is not enough on its own: the most decisive factor is the return of the human touch and reciprocal communication. All of these suggest that technology is an important ally in the ‘renaissance of medicine’ that starts to treat patients as it should have always had.

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