SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges
Primary care is challenged to provide high quality, accessible and affordable care for an increasingly ageing, complex, and multimorbid population. To counter these challenges, primary care professionals need to take up new and innovative practices, including eHealth. eHealth applications hold the p...
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| author | van der Kleij, Rianne M. J. J. Kasteleyn, Marise J. Meijer, Eline Bonten, Tobias Nicolaas Houwink, Elisa J. F. Teichert, Martine van Luenen, Sanne Vedanthan, Rajesh Evers, Andrea Car, Josip Pinnock, Hilary Chavannes, Niels H. |
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| author_facet | Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) van der Kleij, Rianne M. J. J. Kasteleyn, Marise J. Meijer, Eline Bonten, Tobias Nicolaas Houwink, Elisa J. F. Teichert, Martine van Luenen, Sanne Vedanthan, Rajesh Evers, Andrea Car, Josip Pinnock, Hilary Chavannes, Niels H. |
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| description | Primary care is challenged to provide high quality, accessible and affordable care for an increasingly ageing, complex, and multimorbid population. To counter these challenges, primary care professionals need to take up new and innovative practices, including eHealth. eHealth applications hold the promise to overcome some difficulties encountered in the care of people with complex medical and social needs in primary care. However, many unanswered questions regarding (cost) effectiveness, integration with healthcare, and acceptability to patients, caregivers, and professionals remain to be elucidated. What conditions need to be met? What challenges need to be overcome? What downsides must be dealt with? This first paper in a series on eHealth in primary care introduces basic concepts and examines opportunities for the uptake of eHealth in primary care. We illustrate that although the potential of eHealth in primary care is high, several conditions need to be met to ensure that safe and high-quality eHealth is developed for and implemented in primary care. eHealth research needs to be optimized; ensuring evidence-based eHealth is available. Blended care, i.e. combining face-to-face care with remote options, personalized to the individual patient should be considered. Stakeholders need to be involved in the development and implementation of eHealth via co-creation processes, and design should be mindful of vulnerable groups and eHealth illiteracy. Furthermore, a global perspective on eHealth should be adopted, and eHealth ethics, patients' safety and privacy considered. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1421282020-11-01T05:19:16Z SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges van der Kleij, Rianne M. J. J. Kasteleyn, Marise J. Meijer, Eline Bonten, Tobias Nicolaas Houwink, Elisa J. F. Teichert, Martine van Luenen, Sanne Vedanthan, Rajesh Evers, Andrea Car, Josip Pinnock, Hilary Chavannes, Niels H. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Centre for Population Health Sciences Science::Medicine eHealth Primary Care Primary care is challenged to provide high quality, accessible and affordable care for an increasingly ageing, complex, and multimorbid population. To counter these challenges, primary care professionals need to take up new and innovative practices, including eHealth. eHealth applications hold the promise to overcome some difficulties encountered in the care of people with complex medical and social needs in primary care. However, many unanswered questions regarding (cost) effectiveness, integration with healthcare, and acceptability to patients, caregivers, and professionals remain to be elucidated. What conditions need to be met? What challenges need to be overcome? What downsides must be dealt with? This first paper in a series on eHealth in primary care introduces basic concepts and examines opportunities for the uptake of eHealth in primary care. We illustrate that although the potential of eHealth in primary care is high, several conditions need to be met to ensure that safe and high-quality eHealth is developed for and implemented in primary care. eHealth research needs to be optimized; ensuring evidence-based eHealth is available. Blended care, i.e. combining face-to-face care with remote options, personalized to the individual patient should be considered. Stakeholders need to be involved in the development and implementation of eHealth via co-creation processes, and design should be mindful of vulnerable groups and eHealth illiteracy. Furthermore, a global perspective on eHealth should be adopted, and eHealth ethics, patients' safety and privacy considered. Published version 2020-06-16T04:33:03Z 2020-06-16T04:33:03Z 2019 Journal Article van der Kleij, R. M. J. J., Kasteleyn, M. J., Meijer, E., Bonten, T. N., Houwink, E. J. F., Teichert, M., . . . Chavannes, N. H. (2019). SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges. European Journal of General Practice, 25(4), 179-189. doi:10.1080/13814788.2019.1658190 1381-4788 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142128 10.1080/13814788.2019.1658190 31597502 2-s2.0-85074481717 4 25 179 189 en European Journal of General Practice © 2019 The Author(s) (published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Science::Medicine eHealth Primary Care van der Kleij, Rianne M. J. J. Kasteleyn, Marise J. Meijer, Eline Bonten, Tobias Nicolaas Houwink, Elisa J. F. Teichert, Martine van Luenen, Sanne Vedanthan, Rajesh Evers, Andrea Car, Josip Pinnock, Hilary Chavannes, Niels H. SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title | SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title_full | SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title_fullStr | SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title_short | SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1 : concepts, conditions and challenges |
| title_sort | series ehealth in primary care part 1 concepts conditions and challenges |
| topic | Science::Medicine eHealth Primary Care |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142128 |
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