Digital health and care: emerging from pandemic times

In 2020, we published an editorial about the massive disruption of health and care services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid changes in digital service delivery, artificial intelligence and data sharing that were taking place at the time. Now, 3 years later, we describe how these develo...

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Published in:BMJ health & care informatics 2023-10, Vol.30 (1), p.e100861
Main Authors: Peek, Niels, Sujan, Mark, Scott, Philip
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Artificial intelligence
BMJ Health Informatics
COVID-19
Digital transformation
Disease transmission
Health care access
Informatics
Pandemics
Patient safety
Patient satisfaction
Primary care
Public health informatics
Review
Workforce
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Summary:In 2020, we published an editorial about the massive disruption of health and care services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the rapid changes in digital service delivery, artificial intelligence and data sharing that were taking place at the time. Now, 3 years later, we describe how these developments have progressed since, reflect on lessons learnt and consider key challenges and opportunities ahead by reviewing significant developments reported in the literature. As before, the three key areas we consider are digital transformation of services, realising the potential of artificial intelligence and wise data sharing to facilitate learning health systems. We conclude that the field of digital health has rapidly matured during the pandemic, but there are still major sociotechnical, evaluation and trust challenges in the development and deployment of new digital services.
ISSN:2632-1009
2632-1009
DOI:10.1136/bmjhci-2023-100861