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Integrated Care’s New Protagonist: The Expanding Role of Digital Health Cover

Integrated Care’s New Protagonist: The Expanding Role of Digital Health

Open Access
|Oct 2021

Abstract

Digital health technologies hold significant promise to advance both functional and normative health and social care integration. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a window of opportunity to rapidly advance the adoption of digital solutions which can improve activities that support integration at clinical, professional, organizational and system levels. Global examples demonstrate how the pandemic has also created opportunities to use technology to address core values of integrated care like person-centredness and coordination. However, rapid and reactive changes could lead to increased fragmentation and exacerbate health inequity. This perspective paper outlines some of the opportunities and threats to advancing integrated care presented by the rapid adoption of digital health tools, suggesting we maintain a long view to ensure the stage we set today will mean greater integration tomorrow.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.6437 | Journal eISSN: 1568-4156
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 20, 2021
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Accepted on: Sep 20, 2021
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Published on: Oct 13, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Carolyn Steele Gray, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.