
Chronic Diseases Management Using Digital Health Technologies
Teoh Soo Huat
1Cluster of Lifestyle Science, Advanced Medical and Dental
Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysi
Siti Norazlina Binti Juhari
2Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin,
Terengganu, Malaysia
Razlina Abdul Rahman
3Department of Family Medicine, School of Medical Sciences,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kelantan, Malaysia
We examine with awesome hobby the object published in the
September 2018 difficulty of the Oman Medical Journal through Al Kuwaiti et al
describing the significance of imposing virtual fitness technology (DHTs) in
Saudi Arabia’s Academic Medical Centers (AMCs).1 We accept as true with the
authors’ analysis and also would like to deliver to your interest that DHT use
may even advantage continual illnesses management.
Its utilization by way of healthcare carriers and sufferers
has been proven to enhance treatment final results, particularly in
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which include diabetes and hypertension.2,3
Such favorable outcomes are predicted due to the fact the application of DHT
meets of the six additives in Wagner’s
Chronic Care Model (clinical information structures and patient’s self-control
support).
Three The strategies advocated inside the former are the
implementation of digital clinical statistics (EMR), digital prescriptions
(eRX), and appointment structures.
2 EMR and eRX save you troubles with illegible handwriting
and appearing medications assessments, which can be an vital factor in
upholding patients’ safety.
These measures are specifically crucial in patients with
chronic illnesses taking a couple of medicinal drugs. Recorded scientific
records compiled into persistent sickness registries allows clinicians,
researchers, and directors to plot healthcare regulations and treatment
algorithms that enhance scientific outcomes within the wider population.
Furthermore, the computerized system reduces waiting time
(e.G., tracing medical information, time filling out bureaucracy and
appointments) and allows a reminder machine, so as to improve patients’
compliance to appointments and probable to treatment plans.
The Agency for Health care Examine and Quality (AHRQ) has
funded a extensive portfolio of research projects to foster innovation in the
usage of health IT to enhance take care of sufferers with continual illnesses.
This short highlights early observations from thirteen of those projects that
comprise using fitness IT in their programs and awareness on the following
implementation issues:
More training from the AHRQ telehealth portfolio (PDF, 114
KB, HTML) .
Types of Health IT Applications Used in CDM Programs
Lesson 1: Grantees are using an expansion of health IT
programs -- and combos of applications -- to deal with one-of-a-kind elements
of CDM.
AHRQ grantees have integrated the following technologies in
their continual sickness management packages:
Implementation of Technology Solutions
Lesson 2: Significant investments of time and resources are
required to configure each off-the-shelf vendor products and internally
advanced technology to meet stakeholders' wishes.
An preliminary query that each fitness employer need to
answer in enforcing projects for emerging regions of health IT-enabled care is
whether to buy a commercially available product or construct a custom designed
software.
Regardless of which approach is taken, a significant funding
of time and assets is needed to configure IT systems to perform the
capabilities preferred with the aid of stakeholders. A few of the AHRQ-funded
CDM initiatives opted to buy software program or gadget off-the-shelf from
business companies; others advanced their answers internally.
Many of the examples beneath illustrate troubles grantees
confronted when working with off-the-shelf solutions to implement their chronic
ailment management programs.
The use of wearable health era, cellular smartphone
applications, and domestic-based totally tracking devices by means of sufferers
with NCDs has become famous.Four These DHT facts patient’s important signs and
symptoms, physical activities, nutritional intake, power expenditure, and
glucose degree, which allows them and healthcare carriers control and screen
their disorder.
Of notice, patients might be able to review this statistics
first-hand accordingly facilitating their decision on the subsequent direction
of motion.
This may be to continue with an existing intervention,
intensify a way of life intervention, simple remedy adjustment (as accepted by
attending doctor), or to consult a healthcare company right now. Indirectly,
DHT use will empower sufferers’ self-control, sell affected person-focused
care, and shift the paternalistic patient-physician relationship to mutual
participation — all of that are component and parcel of the persistent care
model.2,3
Other than utilization in AMCs, we assume DHT may even gain
number one care given that the majority of sufferers with NCDs are offered and
managed at that level.Five
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