Evaluating the Digital Health Experience for Patients in Primary Care: Mixed Methods Study.
Melinda Ada ChoyKathleen O'BrienKatelyn A BarnesElizabeth Ann SturgissElizabeth RiegerKirsty A DouglasPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2024)
While general digital interest, financial cost, and digital health literacy and empowerment are clear factors in digital health access in a broad primary care population, the digital health divide is also facilitated in part by a stepped series of complex and cumulative barriers. Genuinely improving digital health access for 1 cohort or even 1 person requires a series of multiple different interventions tailored to specific sequential barriers. Within primary care, patient-centered care that continues to recognize the complex individual needs of, and barriers facing, each patient should be part of addressing the digital health divide.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- healthcare
- public health
- health information
- mental health
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- randomized controlled trial
- health promotion
- physical activity
- clinical trial
- palliative care
- study protocol
- newly diagnosed
- young adults
- peritoneal dialysis
- general practice
- climate change
- chronic pain