scholarly journals Turning the Crisis Into an Opportunity: Digital Health Strategies Deployed During the COVID-19 Outbreak (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pol Pérez Sust ◽  
Oscar Solans ◽  
Joan Carles Fajardo ◽  
Manuel Medina Peralta ◽  
Pepi Rodenas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Care Systems

UNSTRUCTURED Digital health technologies offer significant opportunities to reshape current health care systems. From the adoption of electronic medical records to mobile health apps and other disruptive technologies, digital health solutions have promised a better quality of care at a more sustainable cost. However, the widescale adoption of these solutions is lagging behind. The most adverse scenarios often provide an opportunity to develop and test the capacity of digital health technologies to increase the efficiency of health care systems. Catalonia (Northeast Spain) is one of the most advanced regions in terms of digital health adoption across Europe. The region has a long tradition of health information exchange in the public health care sector and is currently implementing an ambitious digital health strategy. In this viewpoint, we discuss the crucial role digital health solutions play during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to support public health policies. We also report on the strategies currently deployed at scale during the outbreak in Catalonia.

scholarly journals Turning the Crisis Into an Opportunity: Digital Health Strategies Deployed During the COVID-19 Outbreak

10.2196/19106 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. e19106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pol Pérez Sust ◽  
Oscar Solans ◽  
Joan Carles Fajardo ◽  
Manuel Medina Peralta ◽  
Pepi Rodenas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Health Information Exchange ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Health Strategy ◽  
Care Systems

Digital health technologies offer significant opportunities to reshape current health care systems. From the adoption of electronic medical records to mobile health apps and other disruptive technologies, digital health solutions have promised a better quality of care at a more sustainable cost. However, the widescale adoption of these solutions is lagging behind. The most adverse scenarios often provide an opportunity to develop and test the capacity of digital health technologies to increase the efficiency of health care systems. Catalonia (Northeast Spain) is one of the most advanced regions in terms of digital health adoption across Europe. The region has a long tradition of health information exchange in the public health care sector and is currently implementing an ambitious digital health strategy. In this viewpoint, we discuss the crucial role digital health solutions play during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic to support public health policies. We also report on the strategies currently deployed at scale during the outbreak in Catalonia.

scholarly journals Application of Health-Care Networking in COVID-19: A Brief Report

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Punidha Kaliaperumal ◽  
Tamorish Kole ◽  
Neha Chugh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Delivery Of Care ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Northern India ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Private And Public

ABSTRACT Health-care systems all over the world are stretched out and being reconfigured to deal with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Some countries have flattened the curve, some are still fighting to survive it, and others are embracing the second wave. Globally, there is an urgent need to increase the resilience, capacity, and capability of health-care systems to deal with the current crisis and improve upon the future responses. The epidemiological burden of COVID-19 has led to rapid exhaustion of local response resources and massive disruption to the delivery of care in many countries. Health-care networking and liaison are essential component in disaster management and public health emergencies. It aims to provide logistical support between hospitals; financial support through local or regional governmental and nongovernmental agencies for response; manpower and mechanism for coordination and to implement policies, procedures, and technologies in the event of such crisis. This brief report describes how 4 independent private hospitals in northern India had adopted the principles of health-care networking, pooled their resources, and scaled up 1 of the partner hospitals as Dedicated COVID-19 Hospital (DCH) to treat moderate to severe category of COVID-19 patients. It brings out the importance of a unique coalition between private and public health-care system.

scholarly journals Health equality, social justice and the poverty of autonomy

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Newdick
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
Public Health Systems ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Health Equality ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Lifestyle Diseases

AbstractHow does the concept of autonomy assist public responses to ‘lifestyle’ diseases? Autonomy is fundamental to bioethics, but its emphasis on self-determination and individuality hardly supports public health policies to eat and drink less and take more exercise. Autonomy rejects a ‘nanny’ state. Yet, the cost of non-communicable diseases is increasing to individuals personally and to public health systems generally. Health care systems are under mounting and unsustainable pressure. What is the proper responsibility of individuals, governments and corporate interests working within a global trading environment? When public health care resources are unlikely to increase, we cannot afford to be so diffident to the cost of avoidable diseases.

scholarly journals Understanding the nature of health: New perspectives for medicine and public health. Improved wellbeing at lower costs

F1000Research ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Bircher ◽  
Eckhart G. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Dynamic State ◽  
Environmental Determinants ◽  
Meikirch Model ◽  
Care Systems

Background: Current dilemmas of health care systems call for a new look at the nature of health. This is offered by the Meikirch model. We explore its hypothetical benefit for the future of medicine and public health.Meikirch model: It states: “Health is a dynamic state of wellbeing emergent from conducive interactions between individuals’ potentials, life’s demands, and social and environmental determinants.” “Throughout the life course health results when an individuals’ biologically given potential (BGP) and his or her personally acquired potential (PAP), interacting with social and environmental determinants, satisfactorily respond to the demands of life.”Methods: We explored the Meikirch model’s possible applications for personal and public health care.Results: The PAP of each individual is the most modifiable component of the model. It responds to constructive social interactions and to personal growth. If an individual’s PAP is nurtured to develop further, it likely will contribute much more to health than without fostering. It may also compensate for losses of the BGP. An ensuing new culture of health may markedly improve health in the society. The rising costs of health care presumably are due in part to the tragedy of the commons and to moral hazard. Health as a complex adaptive system offers new possibilities for patient care, particularly for general practitioners.Discussion: Analysis of health systems by the Meikirch model reveals that in many areas more can be done to improve people’s health and to reduce health care costs than is done today. The Meikirch model appears promising for individual and public health in low and high income countries. Emphasizing health instead of disease the Meikirch model reinforces article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations – that abandons the WHO definition - and thereby may contribute to its reinterpretation.

scholarly journals Harnessing Digital Health Technologies During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Context Matters (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Petracca ◽  
Oriana Ciani ◽  
Maria Cucciniello ◽  
Rosanna Tarricone
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Technologies ◽  
Digital Reconstruction ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Care Systems

UNSTRUCTURED A common development observed during the COVID-19 pandemic is the renewed reliance on digital health technologies. Prior to the pandemic, the uptake of digital health technologies to directly strengthen public health systems had been unsatisfactory; however, a relentless acceleration took place within health care systems during the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, digital health technologies could not be prescinded from the organizational and institutional merits of the systems in which they were introduced. The Italian National Health Service is strongly decentralized, with the national government exercising general stewardship and regions responsible for the delivery of health care services. Together with the substantial lack of digital efforts previously, these institutional characteristics resulted in delays in the uptake of appropriate solutions, territorial differences, and issues in engaging the appropriate health care professionals during the pandemic. An in-depth analysis of the organizational context is instrumental in fully interpreting the contribution of digital health during the pandemic and providing the foundation for the digital reconstruction of what is to come after.

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