TY - JOUR
AU - Fang, Mei Lan
AU - Walker, Morven
AU - Wong, Karen
AU - Sixsmith, Judith
AU - Remund, Leslie
AU - Sixsmith, Andrew
PY - 2022
DA - July
TI - Future of Digital Health and Community Care: Exploring Intended Positive Impacts and Unintended Negative Consequences of COVID-19
JO - Healthcare Management Forum
DO - https://doi.org/10.1177/08404704221107362
AB - Response to COVID-19 has both intentionally and unintentionally progressed the digitization of health and community care, which can be viewed as a human rights issue considering that access to health and community care is a human right. In this article, we reviewed two cases of digitization of health and community care during the pandemic; one in Scotland, United Kingdom and another in British Columbia, Canada. An integrated analysis revealed that digitization of health and community care has intended positive and unintended negative consequences. Based on the analysis, we suggest five areas of improvement for equity in care: building on the momentum of technology advantages; education and digital literacy; information management and security; development of policy and regulatory frameworks; and the future of digital health and community care. This article sheds light on how health practitioners and leaders can work to enhance equity in care experiences amid the changing digital landscape.
PB - SAGE Publications
UR - https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/95192a07-3efd-4699-ad8d-935491404c2b
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Digital health and technology
KW - Social and community care
ER