Healthcare IT — Faces of digital health podcast

Why is it Difficult to Make a Business Case in Healthcare? (Karim Kershavjee)

Karim Karshavjee is the Program Director of the Masters of Health Informatics program at the University of Toronto. He is the co-author of the chapter on Designing Disease-Specific mHealth Apps for Clinical Value in the book Smart and Pervasive Healthcare. The chapter offers an overview of the current usability and use of mHealth apps and what to take into account if you are developing one. To quote one of the findings - “While investments in mHealth is continues to grow, usage of mHealth apps continues to be low. Based on the data in 2017, the use of apps was especially low amongst patients with chronic disease who are most likely to benefit from their use [4]. While 38% of respondents with no health condition had downloaded 1–5 mHealth apps in a survey in 2017, only 6.6% with hypertension had done the same. “

Days of eHealth: Healthcare digitalization in Catalonia, Germany, Finland and Israel

End of August, Days of eHealth were organised as part of the Slovenian Presidency to the Council of EU. Among other presentations were panel discussions about healthcare digitalization practices in Germany, Catalonia, Israel and Finland.

Country Profile, Healthcare Policy, InteroperabilityTjasa ZajcSeptember 29, 2021European Health Data Space, Healthcare IT, health dataComment

F109 How digitally healthy is New Zealand? (Scott Arrol)

New Zealand is not a very large country so one might think digitalization of the healthcare system shouldn’t be too difficult to achieve. On the contrary, it is far from simple because of the complex and fragmented healthcare system design.

F105 The state of healthcare digitalization in Australia (Louise Schaper, AIDH)

Australia has a national digital health strategy, which predicts that by 2022 the essential, foundational elements of health information that can be safely accessed, easily utilized, and shared. According to dr. Louise Schaper, CEO of Australasian Institute of Digital Health, there's been a lot of government commitment to invest in digital health.