
Chronic Diseases Management Using Digital Health Technologies
Teoh Soo Huat
1Cluster of Lifestyle Science, Advanced Medical and Dental
Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
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 amazing hobby the object posted in the
September 2018 trouble of the Oman Medical Journal through Al Kuwaiti et al
describing the importance of enforcing virtual fitness technology (DHTs) in
Saudi Arabia’s Academic Medical Centers (AMCs).
1 We trust the authors’ analysis and also would love to
bring in your interest that DHT use can even gain continual illnesses control.
Its utilization through healthcare carriers and patients has been shown to
enhance remedy final results, particularly in non-communicable illnesses (NCDs)
inclusive of diabetes and high blood pressure.
2,3 Such favorable effects are predicted because the
software of DHT meets two of the six components in Wagner’s Chronic Care Model
(scientific information structures and affected person’s self-control support).
3 The strategies endorsed in the former are the
implementation of digital scientific information (EMR), digital prescriptions
(eRX), and appointment structures.2 EMR and eRX prevent troubles with illegible
handwriting and appearing medications exams, which are an critical element in
upholding sufferers’ safety.
These measures are specially vital in sufferers with
persistent illnesses taking multiple medicines. Recorded scientific statistics
compiled into continual disease registries permits clinicians, researchers, and
directors to plot healthcare policies and treatment algorithms that enhance
clinical consequences within the wider population. Furthermore, the automated
machine reduces waiting time (e.G., tracing clinical records, time filling out
bureaucracy and appointments) and permits a reminder gadget, so as to improve
sufferers’ compliance to appointments and in all likelihood to remedy plans.
The use of wearable health generation, cell cellphone
packages, and home-based tracking gadgets through patients with NCDs has emerge
as famous.Four These DHT facts patient’s critical signs, physical activities,
dietary intake, strength expenditure, and glucose stage, which helps them and
healthcare vendors manipulate and screen their disorder.
Of be aware, patients can be capable of overview this
records first-hand accordingly facilitating their selection on the subsequent
direction of action. This may be to maintain with an current intervention,
accentuate a way of life intervention, simple medicine adjustment (as
authorized by way of attending physician), or to consult a healthcare company
at once. Indirectly, DHT use will empower patients’ self-management, promote
patient-focused care, and shift the paternalistic patient-doctor courting to
mutual participation — all of which might be element and parcel of the chronic
care version.2,three
Other than utilization in AMCs, we assume DHT will even
benefit number one care seeing that the general public of patients with NCDs
are offered and controlled at that degree.Five
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