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.