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Strengthening digital health equity by balancing techno-optimism and techno-skepticism through implementation science

As result of the pandemic-related increase in telehealth and the 21st Century Cures Act, technology is playing an increasing role in healthcare. This has led to organizational investments in the “digital front door” of healthcare. The promise that these technologies can revolutionize care by better...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez, Jorge A., Lyles, Courtney R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10622516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37919418
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00954-0
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description As result of the pandemic-related increase in telehealth and the 21st Century Cures Act, technology is playing an increasing role in healthcare. This has led to organizational investments in the “digital front door” of healthcare. The promise that these technologies can revolutionize care by better connecting us to our patients, overcoming analog barriers to care, and addressing health disparities is grounded in “techno-optimism.” We advocate for organizational leaders to inform their digital health equity strategies with a balanced measure of “techno-skepticism”, grounded in implementation science, that can ensure alignment between health technology and health equity.
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spelling pubmed-106225162023-11-04 Strengthening digital health equity by balancing techno-optimism and techno-skepticism through implementation science Rodriguez, Jorge A. Lyles, Courtney R. NPJ Digit Med Comment As result of the pandemic-related increase in telehealth and the 21st Century Cures Act, technology is playing an increasing role in healthcare. This has led to organizational investments in the “digital front door” of healthcare. The promise that these technologies can revolutionize care by better connecting us to our patients, overcoming analog barriers to care, and addressing health disparities is grounded in “techno-optimism.” We advocate for organizational leaders to inform their digital health equity strategies with a balanced measure of “techno-skepticism”, grounded in implementation science, that can ensure alignment between health technology and health equity. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10622516/ /pubmed/37919418 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00954-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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