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Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19
Response to COVID-19 has both intentionally and unintentionally progressed the digitization of health and community care, which can be viewed as a human rights issue considering that access to health and community care is a human right. In this article, we reviewed two cases of digitization of healt...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9253718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35775162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221107362 |
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author | Fang, Mei Lan Walker, Morven Wong, Karen Lok Yi Sixsmith, Judith Remund, Leslie Sixsmith, Andrew |
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description | Response to COVID-19 has both intentionally and unintentionally progressed the digitization of health and community care, which can be viewed as a human rights issue considering that access to health and community care is a human right. In this article, we reviewed two cases of digitization of health and community care during the pandemic; one in Scotland, United Kingdom and another in British Columbia, Canada. An integrated analysis revealed that digitization of health and community care has intended positive and unintended negative consequences. Based on the analysis, we suggest five areas of improvement for equity in care: building on the momentum of technology advantages; education and digital literacy; information management and security; development of policy and regulatory frameworks; and the future of digital health and community care. This article sheds light on how health practitioners and leaders can work to enhance equity in care experiences amid the changing digital landscape. |
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spelling | pubmed-92537182022-08-31 Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 Fang, Mei Lan Walker, Morven Wong, Karen Lok Yi Sixsmith, Judith Remund, Leslie Sixsmith, Andrew Healthc Manage Forum Original Articles Response to COVID-19 has both intentionally and unintentionally progressed the digitization of health and community care, which can be viewed as a human rights issue considering that access to health and community care is a human right. In this article, we reviewed two cases of digitization of health and community care during the pandemic; one in Scotland, United Kingdom and another in British Columbia, Canada. An integrated analysis revealed that digitization of health and community care has intended positive and unintended negative consequences. Based on the analysis, we suggest five areas of improvement for equity in care: building on the momentum of technology advantages; education and digital literacy; information management and security; development of policy and regulatory frameworks; and the future of digital health and community care. This article sheds light on how health practitioners and leaders can work to enhance equity in care experiences amid the changing digital landscape. SAGE Publications 2022-07-01 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9253718/ /pubmed/35775162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221107362 Text en © 2022 The Canadian College of Health Leaders. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Fang, Mei Lan Walker, Morven Wong, Karen Lok Yi Sixsmith, Judith Remund, Leslie Sixsmith, Andrew Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title | Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title_full | Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title_short | Future of digital health and community care: Exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of COVID-19 |
title_sort | future of digital health and community care: exploring intended positive impacts and unintended negative consequences of covid-19 |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9253718/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35775162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08404704221107362 |
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