Scale-up of Digital Innovations in Health Care: Expert Commentary on Enablers and Barriers

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Contributors

  • Hannes Schlieter - , Research group digital health (Author)
  • Lisa A. Marsch - , Dartmouth College (Author)
  • Diane Whitehouse - , European Health Telematics Association (Author)
  • Lena Otto - , Research group digital health (Author)
  • Ana Rita Londral - , NOVA University Lisbon (Author)
  • Gisbert Wilhelm Teepe - , ETH Zurich (Author)
  • Martin Benedict - , Research group digital health (Author)
  • Joseph Ollier - , ETH Zurich (Author)
  • Tom Ulmer - , Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (Author)
  • Nathalie Gasser - , Lung League (Author)
  • Sabine Ultsch - , University of St. Gallen (Author)
  • Bastian Wollschlaeger - , Research group digital health (Author)
  • Tobias Kowatsch - , ETH Zurich, University of St. Gallen (Author)

Abstract

Health care delivery is undergoing a rapid change from traditional processes toward the use of digital health interventions and personalized medicine. This movement has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis as a response to the need to guarantee access to health care services while reducing the risk of contagion. Digital health scale-up is now also vital to achieve population-wide impact: it will only accomplish sustainable effects if and when deployed into regular health care delivery services. The question of how sustainable digital health scale-up can be successfully achieved has, however, not yet been sufficiently resolved. This paper identifies and discusses enablers and barriers for scaling up digital health innovations. The results discussed in this paper were gathered by scientists and representatives of public bodies as well as patient organizations at an international workshop on scaling up digital health innovations. Results are explored in the context of prior research and implications for future work in achieving large-scale implementations that will benefit the population as a whole.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere24582
JournalJournal of Medical Internet Research
Volume24
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

PubMed 35275065
ORCID /0000-0002-6513-9017/work/170107586

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Keywords

  • barriers, digital health, digital health services, enablers, health care delivery, health interventions