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Taking Digital Health to the Next Level: Promoting Technologies That Empower Consumers and Drive Health System Transformation

Year: 2014

Type: report

Abstract: Digital health technologies offer the potential to transform health care by making it more responsive to consumers' needs, convenient for patients to access, and efficient and satisfying for providers to deliver.Yet there are significant barriers to the adoption of such technologies, including a dearth of evidence of their impact on cost and outcomes and a lack of collaboration between clinicians and technologists in product development.In this report, we draw on the views and experiences of experts and innovators in the field to make recommendations for overcoming such barriers.These include: defining opportunities to focus on the country's greatest health and delivery system problems; closing knowledge gaps among consumers, technology developers, entrepreneurs, health care executives, and investors; creating test beds in care settings; enabling consumer-centered design and valuations of new technologies; and addressing operational factors and challenges related to an evolving reimbursement and policy landscape.

DOI: 10.15868/socialsector.25078

Authors: Sarah Klein Klein, Douglas McCarthy McCarthy, Martha Hostetter Hostetter

Institutions: Washington University in St. Louis, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley

Language: English

Topic: Health, Technology, Consumer Behavior

Subfield: Health Information Management

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Funders: Commonwealth Fund, Yale University, University of Connecticut

OpenAlex ID: W4213200280

Cites: 4

Cited by: 9

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