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Electronic health records (EHRs) offer a valuable resource for research and healthcare improvement. However, public acceptance, regarding the sharing of personal health data, is crucial for the success of such initiatives. In Germany, automatic data sharing via EHRs will be implemented unless people opt out. This study aims to assess the willingness of the German population to share health data via EHRs and to explore the role of trust in influencing these attitudes.
Commercial wearable and mobile wellness apps and devices have become increasingly affordable and ubiquitous. One of their aims is to assist the individual wearing them in adopting a healthier lifestyle through tracking and visualizing their data. Some of these devices and apps have a wheelchair mode that indicates that they are designed for different types of bodies (eg, wheelchair users with spinal cord injury [SCI]). However, research focuses mainly on designing and developing new condition-specific self-tracking technology, whereas the experiences of wheelchair users with SCI using self-tracking technology remain underexplored.
Telehealth is a recognized and rapidly evolving domain in the delivery of emergency medicine. Research suggests a positive impact of telehealth in patients presenting for emergency care; however, the regional challenges of acute telemedicine delivery have not been studied. The WA Country Health Service (WACHS) established the Emergency Telehealth Service (ETS) in 2012 to provide telehealth and other technology-enabled services to regional Western Australian hospitals and clinics. The WACHS ETS supports 87 rural and remote WACHS-operated hospitals as well as 10 non-WACHS health clinics via high-definition audio-visual equipment installed in the resuscitation bay of the emergency department (ED) at each site. This 12-year practical application of emergency telemedicine offers a unique opportunity to explore the experiences and perceptions of clinicians delivering virtual care to rural and remote communities.
Binge drinking, which is linked to various immediate and long-term negative outcomes, is highly prevalent among U.S. college students. Behavioral interventions delivered via mobile phones has strong potential to help decrease the hazardous effects of binge drinking by promoting safer drinking behaviors.
The global increase in the Internet of Things (IoT) adoption has sparked interest in its application within the educational sector, particularly in colleges and universities. Previous studies have often focused on individual attitudes toward IoT without considering a multi-perspective approach and have overlooked the impact of IoT on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) outside the educational domain.
The Early Psychosis Intervention Network of California project, a learning health care network of California early psychosis intervention (EPI) programs, prioritized incorporation of community partner feedback while designing its eHealth app, Beehive. Though eHealth apps can support learning health care network data collection aims, low user acceptance or adoption can pose barriers to successful implementation. Adopting user-centered design (UCD) approaches, such as incorporation of user feedback, prototyping, iterative design, and continuous evaluation, can mitigate these potential barriers.
Due to the rising prevalence of Alzheimer disease and related dementias, easily deployable tools to quantify risk are needed. Smartphones and smartwatches enable unobtrusive and continuous monitoring, but there is limited information regarding the feasibility, adherence, and acceptability of digital data collection among racially diverse older adults.
Hybrid work is the new modus operandi for many office workers, leading to more sedentary behavior than office-only working. Given the potential of digital interventions to reduce sedentary behavior and the current lack of studies evaluating these interventions for home office settings, it is crucial to develop digital interventions for such contexts involving all stakeholders.
Current health education methods in Pakistan utilize traditional media (e.g., TV, radio), community health workers, and printed materials, which often fall short in reach and engagement among most of the population. The health sector in Pakistan has not yet utilized social media effectively to raise awareness and provide education about diseases. Research on the impact social media can have on health education in Pakistan may expand current efforts, engage a wider audience, and reduce the disease burden on healthcare facilities.
In health care, the use of nursing technological innovations, particularly technological products, is rapidly increasing; however, these innovations do not always align with nursing practice. An explanation for this issue could be that nursing technological innovations are developed and implemented with a top-down approach, which could subsequently limit the positive impact on practice. Cocreation with stakeholders such as nurses can help address this issue. Nowadays, health care centers increasingly encourage stakeholder participation, which is known as a bottom-up cocreation approach. However, little is known about the experience of nurses and their managers with this approach and the innovations it results in within the field of nursing care.
