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Health Care Sciences & Services
Hannes Schlieter, Lisa A. Marsch, Diane Whitehouse, Lena Otto, Ana Rita Londral, Gisbert Wilhelm Teepe, Martin Benedict, Joseph Ollier, Tom Ulmer, Nathalie Gasser, Sabine Ultsch, Bastian Wollschlaeger, Tobias Kowatsch
Summary: This paper examines the scaling up of digital health innovations and analyzes the enablers and barriers involved. Sustainable digital health scale-up can be achieved by integrating these innovations into regular healthcare services, leading to benefits for the entire population.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Mubashir Hassan, Faryal Mehwish Awan, Anam Naz, Enrique J. deAndres-Galiana, Oscar Alvarez, Ana Cernea, Lucas Fernandez-Brillet, Juan Luis Fernandez-Martinez, Andrzej Kloczkowski
Summary: Big data has great potential in healthcare for personalized medicine and health care. The large volumes of biomedical and clinical data present opportunities and challenges for analysis and interpretation, and the development of new algorithms has enabled personalized precision medicine.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Hyeong Min Kim, Se Joon Woo
Summary: Treatment options for retinal diseases have expanded with the development of intravitreal injection methods, but efforts are now focused on extending treatment intervals and exploring less invasive drug delivery techniques. Various innovative approaches are under investigation to enhance drug efficacy and minimize adverse effects.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Allison A. Lewinski, Caitlin Sullivan, Kelli D. Allen, Matthew J. Crowley, Jennifer M. Gierisch, Karen M. Goldstein, Kaileigh Gray, Susan N. Hastings, George L. Jackson, Felicia McCant, Abigail Shapiro, Matthew Tucker, Carolyn Turvey, Leah L. Zullig, Hayden B. Bosworth
Summary: Virtual care is crucial for VHA's effort in expanding veterans' access to care, and research on refining virtual care delivery models is needed. A Think Tank convened in December 2019 to address challenges in virtual care research and practice, discuss novel approaches, and develop priorities to enhance virtual care in VHA. The Think Tank identified four key priorities: scaling evidence-based practices, centralizing virtual care, creating high-value care within VHA with virtual care, and identifying appropriate patients for virtual care.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Laura M. Gottlieb, Matthew S. Pantell, Loel S. Solomon
Summary: Despite progress in integrating social care interventions in the US healthcare sector, the scaling of practices is still limited. The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the interdependence of health and social care sectors, motivating health systems to expand tools for addressing social needs.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Review
Instruments & Instrumentation
Sherif A. Gaballa, Uday B. Kompella, Omar Elgarhy, Ali M. Alqahtani, Barbara Pierscionek, Raid G. Alany, Hamdy Abdelkader
Summary: Corticosteroids are the mainstay of treatment for various ocular conditions due to their anti-inflammatory properties. Different routes of administration can enhance therapeutic effects but also pose significant local risks, including intraocular pressure elevation and cataract formation.
DRUG DELIVERY AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Conor Walsh, Caitlin Sullivan, Hayden B. Bosworth, Sarah Wilson, Jennifer M. Gierisch, Kaitlyn B. Goodwin, Felicia Mccant, Helen Hoenig, Leonie Heyworth, Donna M. Zulman, Carolyn Turvey, Ernest Moy, Allison A. Lewinski
Summary: The Covid-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in the use of virtual care, but there are inequities in access and utilization between audio-only and video-based virtual care. This study identified priorities for achieving equitable implementation of virtual care within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) through a Think Tank involving clinicians, researchers, and operational partners.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Engineering, Industrial
Umesh Bamel, Shalini Talwar, Vijay Pereira, Laura Corazza, Amandeep Dhir
Summary: The focus on healthcare and digital transformation in the past two decades, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to a large volume of literature. This has created both enrichment and confusion, calling for a need to make sense of the achievements and contribute more meaningfully to theory and practice. In response to this need, the existing empirical research on disruptive digital innovations in healthcare was systematically analyzed and evaluated. The outcome of the review is a conceptual framework that can guide future research and provide recommendations for advancing the field.
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Environmental Sciences
Steffen Flessa, Claudia Huebner
Summary: This paper introduces a conceptual framework model for the development, adoption, and diffusion of innovations in healthcare, analyzing barriers and promoters of innovations. Strategic innovation management in healthcare is crucial for the rapid development and adoption of innovations, leading to an improvement in quality of life.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
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Critical Care Medicine
Annette M. Esper, Yaseen M. Arabi, Maurizio Cecconi, Bin Du, Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Nicole Juffermans, Flavia Machado, Sandra Peake, Jason Phua, Kathryn Rowan, Gee Young Suh, Greg S. Martin
Summary: Since the advent of critical care in the twentieth century, significant advancements have been made in diagnosing, supporting, and treating critically ill patients. However, further improvements are needed in areas such as physical ICU space, healthcare professionals, equipment and technology, information systems and data, and research systems to provide personalized, high-quality care and improve outcomes for critically ill patients and their families.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Paschal Mdoe, Tracey A. Mills, Robert Chasweka, Livuka Nsemwa, Chisomo Petross, Rose Laisser, Angela Chimwaza, Tina Lavender
Summary: The study explored positive experiences and visions of respectful care among service users, families, and healthcare providers in maternity facilities in Tanzania and Malawi. Interventions targeting improved environment and privacy, healthcare provider communication, and developing positive leadership structures could provide a basis for sustained improvement in respectful maternal and newborn care in LMICs.
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chipo Nancy Ngongoni, William Wasswa, Moredreck Chibi
Summary: This study reviewed and analyzed 1003 innovations utilized for the COVID-19 response, and identified four strategic pillars that explain the successful integration of these innovations in Primary Health Care. These pillars include collaboration, governance, innovation design, and strategy.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Irene Del N. Mastro
Summary: The Ministry of Health in Peru is promoting culturally competent and universal healthcare by implementing policies to address barriers faced by indigenous peoples. Medical providers play a role in implementing these policies, but their professional authority may affect the approach to culturally competent care. This study found that medical providers engage in non-clinical tasks, tolerate traditional medicine, and make adjustments to their practice to facilitate the provision of culturally competent care. However, these strategies may also deter some women from seeking institutional births, reproducing existing constraints faced by indigenous people in accessing healthcare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Michael Tang, Akhila Reddy
Summary: The emergence of the global pandemic COVID-19 has significantly changed the healthcare delivery model, particularly in the provision of palliative care to advanced cancer patients through the adoption of telemedicine. Telemedicine offers various benefits but also presents challenges in healthcare disparities, reimbursement, and monitoring opioids in high-risk populations.
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Clinical Neurology
Aradhana Verma, Amytis Towfighi, Arleen Brown, Anshu Abhat, Alejandra Casillas
Summary: Digital health can provide a path towards more accessible stroke prevention and treatment, particularly for historically disadvantaged patient populations. However, underrepresented individuals face digital health disparities that potentially diminish the benefits of these digital advances, requiring the consideration of their needs in the integration of digital health solutions.