Digital health at fifteen: more human (more needed)

BMC Medicine

Kit Huckvale¹  C. Jason Wang²  Josip Car³  Azeem Majeed³ 

[1] Black Dog Institute, Hospital Road, Prince of Wales Hospital, University of New South Wales Sydney;Center for Policy, Outcomes, and Prevention, 117 Encina Commons, Stanford University;Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London;

关键词: Digital health;    eHealth;    Person-centred care;    Human factors;    Ergonomics;    Machine learning;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-019-1302-0

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract There is growing appreciation that the success of digital health – whether digital tools, digital interventions or technology-based change strategies – is linked to the extent to which human factors are considered throughout design, development and implementation. A shift in focus to individuals as users and consumers of digital health highlights the capacity of the field to respond to secular developments, such as the adoption of person-centred care and consumer health technologies. We argue that this project is not only incomplete, but is fundamentally ‘uncompletable’ in the face of a highly dynamic landscape of both technological and human challenges. These challenges include the effects of consumerist, technology-supported care on care delivery, the rapid growth of digital users in low-income and middle-income countries and the impacts of machine learning. Digital health research will create most value by retaining a clear focus on the role of human factors in maximising health benefit, by helping health systems to anticipate and understand the person-centred effects of technology changes and by advocating strongly for the autonomy, rights and safety of consumers.

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