Digital health & low-value care.
Healthc (Amst)
; 9(2): 100533, 2021 Jun.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33714891
ABSTRACT
Digital health advances offer a multitude of possibilities to improve public health and individual wellbeing. Little attention has been paid, however, to digital health's potential to create low-value care - the reduction of which is increasingly appreciated as a policy priority. This commentary provides a framework to illustrate the potential for consumer-facing digital health to generate three distinct categories of low-value care; 1) ineffective care because it is underdeveloped, 2) inefficient care because it supplements rather than substitutes, or 3) unwanted care because it is not aligned with clinician and patient preferences. We offer specific policy recommendations to reduce each type of low-value care.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Telemedicine
Type of study:
Guideline
Aspects:
Patient_preference
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Healthc (Amst)
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article