📣 New Publication: The Need for a Digital Health Readiness Tool 🖥
Our recent systematic review, "How is digital health suitability measured for communities?" reveals a critical gap in digital health: no comprehensive tool exists to measure a patient’s or community’s readiness for digital health services. Authors include: John Geracitano, Luke Barron, David McSwain, MD MPH, and Saif Khairat, PhD, MPH.
Despite the rapid growth of digital health, including telehealth and mobile health, there is no standardized mechanism to assess if individuals and communities are equipped to leverage these services effectively. Existing tools evaluate isolated factors like broadband access but fail to capture the full picture.
🔑 What’s missing?
🔹 An index that considers socioeconomic status, digital accessibility (devices and internet), and social determinants of health.
🔹 A comprehensive, operational tool that healthcare providers, researchers, and policymakers can use to drive equitable and effective care.
🔹 Without such a tool, vulnerable populations, particularly those in rural areas or with lower socioeconomic status, are at risk of falling further behind in accessing digital health.
Read the full review: https://lnkd.in/d3JXuJrW
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