E-health: Comprehensive Care Models Using ICT
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 4502
Special Issue Editors
Interests: eHealth; chronic pain; health promotion; web based interventions; telehealth
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are a key element in integrated care models. They bring a whole new dimension to the healthcare field by introducing electronic media that open the door to the use of new models of care, favoring their sustainability and improving their effectiveness and efficiency through innovative approaches in the provision of healthcare services and has played an important role in the response to the huge pressure on healthcare systems triggered by COVID-19 pandemic.
However, little is known about how existing technologies have been used to support new models of integrated care. It is well known that the success of ICT use in healthcare is understood as the compatibility between clinical ICT systems and health care professionals' tasks, ICT support for information exchange, communication and collaboration in clinical practice, and interoperability and reliability. In addition, ethical issues such as privacy protection are a common problem that affects healthcare in general but magnified by the use of ICT.
Although the literature describes optimal ICT systems, to our knowledge, there are few studies that have explored how ICT is used to enable integrated care models. To address this gap, this special issue focuses on how to address the challenges faced by current eHealth infrastructures and applications.
The List of Topics may include (but is not limited to):
- Understanding the role that the structure of healthcare organizations, tasks, personnel policies, incentives, and decision-making processes play in explaining how clinicians overcome challenges in the use of ICT.
- Understanding the factors that explain the use of ICTs by healthcare professionals, and the range of interconnections between clinical practices and digital devices and forms of information, as well as the ways in which they are used in people's private lives.
- Understanding the effect on the nature of the health care professionals-patient relationship.
- What eHealth competencies do healthcare professionals need to provide a comprehensive care.
- How e-health applications are used to support comprehensive care at the time of COVID-19.
- Development and/or testing the implementation of eHealth solutions in different healthcare settings.
- Exploring the needs/perceptions of professionals and/or patients about eHealth solutions to be implemented.
Prof. Dr. Rubén Nieto
Dr. Francesc Saigí-Rubió
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ICT
- eHealth
- comprehensive health care
- COVID-19
- telehealth
