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View article: Caregiver experiences of an integrative patient-centered digital health application for pediatric type 1 diabetes care: Findings from a pilot clinical trial
Caregiver experiences of an integrative patient-centered digital health application for pediatric type 1 diabetes care: Findings from a pilot clinical trial Open
Diabetes technology generates vital health data, but healthcare professionals (HCP) and patients must navigate multiple platforms to access it. We developed a digital health platform, co-designed with patients and families living with type…
View article: Predicting Electronic Health Record (EHR) Usability: A Scoping Review of Models, Metrics, and Opportunities for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (Preprint)
Predicting Electronic Health Record (EHR) Usability: A Scoping Review of Models, Metrics, and Opportunities for Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become foundational in modern health care, offering potential benefits in care coordination, data sharing, and patient safety. However, poor EHR usability remains a major barrier, contribut…
View article: Building the Workforce’s Capacity to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Environmental Scan of Training Programs for Digital Technologies in Public Health
Building the Workforce’s Capacity to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Environmental Scan of Training Programs for Digital Technologies in Public Health Open
Background The digital transformation of society and public health has created an urgent need for new competencies to address evolving and contemporary public health challenges. While some public health institutions and schools worldwide h…
View article: Caregiver experiences of an integrative patient-centered digital health application for pediatric type 1 diabetes care: findings from a pilot clinical trial
Caregiver experiences of an integrative patient-centered digital health application for pediatric type 1 diabetes care: findings from a pilot clinical trial Open
Diabetes technology generates vital health data, but healthcare professionals (HCP) and patients must navigate multiple platforms to access it. We developed a digital health platform, co-designed with patients and families living with type…
View article: Information Needs of Patients With Head and Neck Cancer and Their Supports in Relation to Treatment Management Choices: Scoping Review
Information Needs of Patients With Head and Neck Cancer and Their Supports in Relation to Treatment Management Choices: Scoping Review Open
Background Advances in research and modes of information delivery provide new opportunities to access medical information. Despite this, patient information needs on head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment are not sufficiently met. Objective …
View article: Involving Vulnerable User Groups for Designing eHealth: A Designers’ Perspective
Involving Vulnerable User Groups for Designing eHealth: A Designers’ Perspective Open
Involving users in the design of eHealth systems for the whole population can be difficult due to the wide range of potential users. This is particularly true in designing applications that will be used by vulnerable user groups, such as t…
View article: The Pepper Robot in Healthcare: A Scoping Review
The Pepper Robot in Healthcare: A Scoping Review Open
Humanoid robots are increasingly being used in a number of domains. This paper focuses on reviewing the use of the Pepper humanoid robot in healthcare. This robot has begun to be used in a range of settings and combines speech recognition …
View article: The NAO Robot in Healthcare and Education: A Scoping Review
The NAO Robot in Healthcare and Education: A Scoping Review Open
Humanoid robots, designed to resemble the human form, are increasingly becoming an integral technology used in healthcare and education. This paper focuses on the NAO robot, which is engineered with advanced capabilities such as speech rec…
View article: Building the workforce’s capacity to support the digital transformation of public health: An environmental scan of training programs for digital technologies in public health (Preprint)
Building the workforce’s capacity to support the digital transformation of public health: An environmental scan of training programs for digital technologies in public health (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The digital transformation of public health highlights the growing need for new digital competencies to tackle evolving and contemporary public health challenges. While some public health institutions and schools worldwide have…
View article: Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada
Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: an interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada Open
View article: Frameworks and Tasks Used in Usability Testing Scripts: A Scoping Review
Frameworks and Tasks Used in Usability Testing Scripts: A Scoping Review Open
Usability is understood as a critical component to the success of electronic health records and other related healthcare technologies. Usability testing methods routinely employ scripts that help researchers understand how a particular too…
View article: Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness
Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness Open
CONTEXT: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of EHR …
View article: Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: An interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada
Considerations for adapting digital competencies and training approaches to the public health workforce: An interpretive description of practitioners’ perspectives in Canada Open
Background Widespread digital transformation necessitates developing digital competencies for public health practice. We explored public health practitioners' experiences and perspectives on adapting digital competencies and training recom…
View article: Artificial intelligence governance framework for healthcare
Artificial intelligence governance framework for healthcare Open
Recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) provide promising applications of this technology with the aim of solving complex healthcare challenges. These include optimizing operational efficiencies, supporting clinica…
View article: Challenges in Teledermoscopy Diagnostic Outcome Studies: Scoping Review of Heterogeneous Study Characteristics
Challenges in Teledermoscopy Diagnostic Outcome Studies: Scoping Review of Heterogeneous Study Characteristics Open
Background Teledermoscopy has demonstrated benefits such as decreased costs and enhanced access to dermatology care for skin cancer detection. However, the heterogeneity among teledermoscopy studies hinders the systematic reviews’ synopsis…
View article: Human Factors and Organizational Issues in Health Informatics: Review of Recent Developments and Advances
Human Factors and Organizational Issues in Health Informatics: Review of Recent Developments and Advances Open
Summary Objective: In this paper we focus on a review of key articles published in the past two years (2022 and 2023) in the areas of human factors and organizational issues in health informatics. Methods: We reviewed manuscripts that were…
View article: Safety and Precision AI for a Modern Digital Health System
Safety and Precision AI for a Modern Digital Health System Open
Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to revolutionize healthcare. Currently there is a proliferation of new AI applications that are being developed and beginning to be deployed across many areas in healthcare to streamline and ma…
View article: Precision and Virtual Care
Precision and Virtual Care Open
Summary The importance of virtual care has been highlighted by the recent pandemic which emphasized the need for effectively providing care remotely. In addition, the development of a range of emerging technologies to support virtual care …
View article: Information Needs of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer and Their Supports in Relation to Treatment Management Choices: A Scoping Review (Preprint)
Information Needs of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer and Their Supports in Relation to Treatment Management Choices: A Scoping Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND Advances in research and modes of information delivery provide new opportunities to access medical information. Despite this, patient information needs on head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment are not sufficiently met. OBJECTI…
View article: The Impact of COVID-19 Regulatory Reporting Burden: A Comparative Study of a Small Independent Hospital and a Large Network Hospital (Preprint)
The Impact of COVID-19 Regulatory Reporting Burden: A Comparative Study of a Small Independent Hospital and a Large Network Hospital (Preprint) Open
The discrepancy in health IT capabilities suggests that there may be significant institutional inequities affecting smaller hospitals' ability to respond to a pandemic and adequately support public health efforts. Electronic certification …
View article: Barriers to and Facilitators of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Health Care: Scoping Review
Barriers to and Facilitators of Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Health Care: Scoping Review Open
Background Artificial intelligence (AI) use cases in health care are on the rise, with the potential to improve operational efficiency and care outcomes. However, the translation of AI into practical, everyday use has been limited, as its …
View article: A Comprehensive Framework for Hospital@Home Care Models
A Comprehensive Framework for Hospital@Home Care Models Open
Hospital@home is a healthcare approach, where patients receive active treatment from health professionals in their own home for conditions that would normally necessitate a hospital stay. Objective: To develop a framework of relevant featu…
View article: Empathetic and Emotive Design: A Scoping Review
Empathetic and Emotive Design: A Scoping Review Open
With the advent of the digital health era, there has emerged a new emphasis on collecting health information from patients and their families using technology platforms that are both empathetic and emotive in their design to meet the needs…
View article: Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics
Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics Open
The design of user interfaces and systems that promote positive emotional interaction and reaction from end users is becoming a critical area in the design of applications and systems for use by the general population. In this paper we des…
View article: Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics: Preliminary Results of Their Application to Evaluating Survey User Interfaces
Empathetic and Emotive Design Heuristics: Preliminary Results of Their Application to Evaluating Survey User Interfaces Open
Empathetic and emotive design is becoming increasingly important in the digital age. In this research we describe the results of a combined cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation using newly developed, empirically derived empathy o…
View article: Digital Competencies and Training Approaches to Enhance the Capacity of Practitioners to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Rapid Review of Current Recommendations
Digital Competencies and Training Approaches to Enhance the Capacity of Practitioners to Support the Digital Transformation of Public Health: Rapid Review of Current Recommendations Open
Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in the public health workforce’s capacity to deploy digital technologies while upholding ethical, social justice, and health equity principles. Existing public health competency frameworks …
View article: HCI-modelling for improving the clinical usability of digital health technologies
HCI-modelling for improving the clinical usability of digital health technologies Open
Combining HCI-modelling and Human-Centred Design could improve scientific progress towards developing safer and more user-friendly DHTs.
View article: Canada’s Digital Health Workforce: The Role of Innovation, Research and Policy
Canada’s Digital Health Workforce: The Role of Innovation, Research and Policy Open
The rapid growth of digital health and use of technology has led to an increased demand for qualified professionals in the areas of health informatics (HI) and health information management (HIM). This is reflected by the growth in the num…
View article: What practice competencies and training approaches are required for public health practitioners to support the digital transformation of public health? A Rapid Review (Preprint)
What practice competencies and training approaches are required for public health practitioners to support the digital transformation of public health? A Rapid Review (Preprint) Open
BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in public health workforce’s capacity to deploy digital technologies, while upholding ethical, social justice and health equity principles. Existing practice and competency frameworks have…
View article: North American Medical Informatics (NAMI)
North American Medical Informatics (NAMI) Open
Digital Health Canada is a member-supported not-for-profit professional association that connects, inspires, and empowers the digital health professionals creating the future of health in Canada. Our members are a diverse community of acco…