Digital health In community medicine ( PSM)

Community medicine

1. Digital Health

2. Information technology A system for storing, retrieving & sending information.

3. Mobile Health ( mHealth ) Mobile devices to deliver health care services

4. Mobile computing Medical sensor Communications technologies

5. Benefits of mHealth

6. Challenges

7. eHealth The cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and health-related fields Health-care services Health surveillance Health literature Health education Research

8. 3 main core areas of eHealth Health systems management Improve public health services Delivery of health information

9. Components of eHealth Mobile health ( mHealth ) Telehealth Telemedicine Electronic medical or health records ( eMR / eHR ) Clinical Information System

10. The 10 e's in "e-health" Efficiency Enhancing quality  Evidence based  Empowerment of consumers and patients Encouragement of a new relationship Education of physicians Enabling information exchange Extending the scope of health care Ethics  Equity

11. Benefits of eHealth Easy & quick communication Reduces paper work Time saving Cost‐effective Confidentiality Bridging the gap of inaccessibility Easy monitoring of patients conditions Reduces medical errors Patients can make better health decision Keeping track of the daily patient activities Emergency situations

12. Limitations/Challenges of eHealth Expensive Time-consuming to bring eHR up-to-date Ethical issue regarding privacy and security Difficult to understand by the commoners Shortage of resources (personal, infrastructure etc) Difficult to access eHR due to digital divide Generating interference in the doctor- patient relationship

13. Digital Health The field of knowledge and practice associated with the development and use of digital technologies to improve health. (WHO 2021)

14. Digidoctor Unique ID for doctors e-Prescription Verification of doctors by NHA Updating qualification Updating employment Feedback and rating

15. Healthcare facility registry Unique ID eForm & eSign GIS Verification by NHA Auditing Automatic benefit enablement

16. Health ID Unique ID Linking with Aadhaar Linking with family Convergence of different schemes Automatic benefit enablement

17. Personal health records PDF & scanned health record Power of consent Prescription & reports in PHR Metadata Analysis

18. WHO- Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025 Purpose To strengthen health systems through the application of digital health technologies for consumers, health professionals, health care providers and industry towards empowering patients and achieving the vision of health for all.

19. WHO- Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025 Guiding principles Digital health requires a commitment by countries Digital health initiatives require an integrated strategy Appropriate use of digital technologies for health Address the major impediments faced by poor countries

20. WHO- Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025 Strategic objectives

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