DIGITAL HEALTH: MOBILE DEVICES, WEARABLES, TELEHEALTH, TELEMEDICINE

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DIGITAL HEALTH: MOBILE DEVICES, WEARABLES, TELEHEALTH, TELEMEDICINE

Preparing for her run, Susan tightened her fitness watch on her wrist. After experiencing and having received treatment for a heart arrhythmia, Susan was encouraged to wear the watch that not only would alert her if she experienced an irregular heartbeat, but the device would also report the findings to her medical team. Susan felt comfortable going on her run, knowing her device would monitor her heart.

Digital health has changed how patients monitor their health. These advancements have allowed patients to take an active role with increased control and agency over their healthcare and well-being. Digital health has also allowed patients to communicate with healthcare providers in different ways that help to facilitate ongoing, continuous, and real-time conversations that lead to data-informed treatment approaches and healthcare plans. Thus, these advancements have shifted and changed how healthcare is offered and practiced both for the patient and healthcare provider.

For this Discussion, you will explore the use of digital health in healthcare organizations and nursing practice. Reflect on the use, implementation, and the barriers for digital health and consider how these devices have changed, or will continue to change, healthcare organizations and nursing practice.

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Required Readings

• Devi, D. H., Duraisamy, K., Armghan, A., Alsharari, M., Aliqab, K., Sorathiya, V., Das, S., & Rashid, N. (2023). 5G technology in healthcare and wearable devices: A reviewLinks to an external site.. Sensors (14248220), 23(5), 2519. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23052519

• Kruse, C., Betancourt, J., Ortiz, S., Valdes Luna, S. M., Bamrah, I. K., & Segovia, N. (2019). Barriers to the use of mobile health in improving health outcomes in developing countries: Systematic reviewLinks to an external site.. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(10), Article e13263. doi:10.2196/13263

• Otto, L., Harst, L., Timpel, P., Wollschlaeger, B., Richter, P., & Schlieter, H. (2020). Defining and delimitating telemedicine and related terms – an ontology-based classificationLinks to an external site.. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 268, 113–122. doi:10.3233/SHTI200010

• Raza, M. M., Venkatesh, K. P., & Kvedar, J. C. (2023). Promoting racial equity in Digital Health: Applying a cross-disciplinary equity frameworkLinks to an external site.. Npj Digital Medicine, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00747-5

• Sen, S., Maity, S., & Das, D. (2020). Turning the body into a wireLinks to an external site.. IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/turning-the-body-into-a-wire

• Smital, L., Haider, C. R., Vitek, M., Leinveber, P., Jurak, P., Nemcova, A., Smisek, R., Marsanova, L., Provaznik, I., Felton, C. L., Gilbert, B. K., & Holmes, D. R., III (2020). Real-time quality assessment of long-term ECG signals recorded by wearables in free-living conditionsLinks to an external site.. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 67(10), 2721–2734. doi:10.1109/TBME.2020.2969719

• Yang, X., Wang, X., Li, X., Gu, D., Liang, C., Li, K., Zhang, G., & Zhong, J. (2020). Exploring emerging IoT technologies in smart health research: A knowledge graph analysisLinks to an external site.. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20, 260. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01278-9

• Wu, M., & Luo, J. (2019). Wearable technology applications in healthcare: A literature reviewLinks to an external site.. HIMSS. https://www.himss.org/resources/wearable-technology-applications-healthcare-literature-review