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Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19
While COVID-19 is still ongoing and associated with more than 5 million deaths, the scope and speed of advances over the past year in terms of scientific discovery, data dissemination, and technology have been staggering. It is not a matter of “if” but “when” we will face the next pandemic, and how...
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Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc.
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34863912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2021.11.014 |
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author | Brahmbhatt, Darshan H. Ross, Heather J. Moayedi, Yasbanoo |
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description | While COVID-19 is still ongoing and associated with more than 5 million deaths, the scope and speed of advances over the past year in terms of scientific discovery, data dissemination, and technology have been staggering. It is not a matter of “if” but “when” we will face the next pandemic, and how we leverage technology and data management effectively to create flexible ecosystems that facilitate collaboration, equitable care, and innovation will determine its severity and scale. The aim of this review is to address emerging challenges that came to light during the pandemic in health care and innovations that enabled us to adapt and continue to care for patients. The pandemic highlighted the need for seismic shifts in care paradigms and technology with considerations related to the digital divide and health literacy for digital health interventions to reach full potential and improve health outcomes. We discuss advances in telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and emerging wearable technologies. Despite the promise of digital health, we emphasise the importance of addressing its limitations, including interpretation challenges, accuracy of findings, and artificial intelligence–driven algorithms. We summarise the most recent recommendation of the Virtual Care Task Force to scaling virtual medical services in Canada. Finally, we propose a model for optimal implementation of health digital innovations with 5 tenets including data management, data security, digital biomarkers, useful artificial intelligence, and clinical integration. |
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spelling | pubmed-86327982021-12-01 Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 Brahmbhatt, Darshan H. Ross, Heather J. Moayedi, Yasbanoo Can J Cardiol Review While COVID-19 is still ongoing and associated with more than 5 million deaths, the scope and speed of advances over the past year in terms of scientific discovery, data dissemination, and technology have been staggering. It is not a matter of “if” but “when” we will face the next pandemic, and how we leverage technology and data management effectively to create flexible ecosystems that facilitate collaboration, equitable care, and innovation will determine its severity and scale. The aim of this review is to address emerging challenges that came to light during the pandemic in health care and innovations that enabled us to adapt and continue to care for patients. The pandemic highlighted the need for seismic shifts in care paradigms and technology with considerations related to the digital divide and health literacy for digital health interventions to reach full potential and improve health outcomes. We discuss advances in telemedicine, remote patient monitoring, and emerging wearable technologies. Despite the promise of digital health, we emphasise the importance of addressing its limitations, including interpretation challenges, accuracy of findings, and artificial intelligence–driven algorithms. We summarise the most recent recommendation of the Virtual Care Task Force to scaling virtual medical services in Canada. Finally, we propose a model for optimal implementation of health digital innovations with 5 tenets including data management, data security, digital biomarkers, useful artificial intelligence, and clinical integration. Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-02 2021-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8632798/ /pubmed/34863912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2021.11.014 Text en © 2021 Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Review Brahmbhatt, Darshan H. Ross, Heather J. Moayedi, Yasbanoo Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title | Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title_full | Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title_short | Digital Technology Application for Improved Responses to Health Care Challenges: Lessons Learned From COVID-19 |
title_sort | digital technology application for improved responses to health care challenges: lessons learned from covid-19 |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8632798/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34863912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2021.11.014 |
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