Technology and Innovation in Pharmacy (Intro) Flashcards
Define following terms:
A) Digital health
B) mHealth (Mobile health)
C) Telemedicine
A)
- Coming together of tech and healthcare
- Improve efficiency of healthcare provision, sharing of info and achieving more personalised care
- digital has health the potential to transform the way patients engage with services and manage their health and wellbeing
B)
- Collecting a patient’s data during their everyday life
- It provides doctors with the unique opportunity to observe how a patient reacts outside of a clinical environement, something they would never be able to achieve through traditional time slots and clinical evaluations
C)
- Real time allows patients and clinicains to hear and see each other using videoconferencing
- Some progress has also been made in the field of telepharmacy where videoconferecning has enabled prescriptions to be clinically checked at different departments by a pharmacist working in a single dispensary
What has investment in eHealth been a response to?
Response to the pressing need to reconsider the ways we manage chronic disease, prevent medication errors, and reduce waste and harm through unecessary duplication of tests
“The agency” incorporatedd functions of national e-health transition authority (NEHTA) to drive next stage of national digital health program, they also manage my health record system operation. Who is the agency
The Australian Digital Health Agency (the agency)
What impacts succeess or failure of eHealth intiatives?
Fixed characteristics of the setting where an initiative occurs, healthcare provider attitudes and behaviours, functional capabilities of the eHealth system being implemented, as well as policy frameworks.
What are the THREE themes that were identified in underlying structural, cultural and organisational determinants of eHealth success. These themes are?
- Multi-level tensions that complicate decision making
- Competencies that enable organisations and systems to do eHealth well
- Cultural shifts that are necessary to realise the full potential of eHEalth
What are some complexities of Implementing Digital Health?
- Number of important cultural shifts across the health system are necessary to occur in order for the full potential of eHealth to be realised
- These are shifts that need to occur not only amongst governments, policy makers, vendors and healthcare providers, but also amongst the general public
What are some cultural shifts necessary for eHealth success?
- standard workup model of care –> integrated care model with emergent coordination underpinend by eHealth solutions
- Document paradigm view of clinical information –> information assimilation
- implementation of eHealth and end in itself –> eHealth an enabler of action on clinical and public health problems
What are the benefits for patients in regards to digital information as it is the bedrock of high quality healthcare?
hosptial admissions avoided, fewer adverse drug events, reduce duplication of tests, better coordination of care for people with chronic and complex conditions, and better informed treatment decisions
- digital health can help and improve lives
How does the national digital health strategy aim to benefit australians by?
What are the seven strategic priority outcomes that the australia national digital health strategy has prioritised to be ahvied by 2022?
- Health information that is avaliable whenever and wherever it is needed
- Health information that can be exchanged securely
- High quality data with a commonly understood meaning that can be used with confidence
- Better availability and access to prescriptions and medicines information
- Digitally-enabled models of care that drive improved accessibility, quality, safety and efficiency
- A workforce confidently using digital health technologies to deliver health and care
- A thriving digital health industry delivering world-class innovation
