Healthcare in Digital World: Roles, Issues, and Approach

This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of digital healthcare, examining its various roles and responsibilities within the modern healthcare system. It delves into the impact of social media and digital technologies on healthcare practices, highlighting their potential in promoting health awareness and patient engagement. The presentation further addresses the legal, ethical, professional, and social equity issues that arise from the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in healthcare, including data security and patient privacy concerns. It also explores the digital communication approach in healthcare, such as telemedicine and telehealth, and discusses the benefits and challenges associated with these methods. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the essential role of digitalization in healthcare and its advantages in promoting health, information dissemination, and data storage.

HEALTH CARE IN THE
DIGITAL WORLD
PRESENTATION

Content Covered
• Introduction
• Role and Responsibility of digital health care system
• Role of social media and digital technology in health care
• Legal, ethical, professional and social equity issues for ICT applications
in health
• Digital communication approach in healthcare:
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Digital health is defined as the digital care programs, it help to provide digital technologies in
such as way to retaliate the health issue. Health care, living, and society to enhance effective
response in health care sector. In this health care sector use the digital technologies which
involves the use of information and communication technologies to help and address the health
problem and challenges faced by under evaluation. In this digital world, healthcare sector adopt
the software as well as hardware technologies. Such as telemedicine, tele-talk, m-Health, e-
Health, and many new innovation is started.

Role and responsibilities of digital healthcare system:
Better doctor-patient coordination- Digitalisation helps to make the work smoother and
understandable
Automate administrative tasks- the administrative expenses for more than quarter of
total hospital expenditure
Communication between multiple physicians- in this current situation, the face to face
interaction is not possible with the physician because of the covid, so e- health play very
vital role in this

Cont.….
Data security- digital data is not safe in concern with cyber attacks, but that not hard to say
the documented file are safe.
Real time health information- the mobile phones and lots of electronic gadget are used
now days that help to increase the sources of communication in live times for their own
places

Role of social media and information
technologies in healthcare:
• There are many of ways to use the social media in such a way to promote the health
awareness, encouraging patient engagement and sharing accurate health messaging.
As per the recent time, social media is a powerful tool now day. According to this the
collaboration of social media and healthcare is powerful. Which help to explore the
social network become and major health resources and just for millennials (Küfeoğlu
and et. al., 2019). As per the day, the 90% of the youngster use the social media and
they must share the health information

Legal, ethical, professional and social equity issues for ICT applications
in health.
• `social media, web and smartphones technologies are enhancing used in healthcare.
Which help to directly support the patient care (Perko and et. al., 2020). Patient benefit
form disease is self management tools, and help to monitor is daily basis. Low
communication barrier in social media, limited privacy and security issue lead to create
issue from ethical. The legal structure is after leaking of data the cuber crime is
activated for those who hacked data but data storing and their privacy is more
important.

Digital communication approach in healthcare:
• Digital communication has create the vital role in health care system. The tele-health
include doctor, nursing, and health educator and other consultants without meeting of
people, which is happens through the digital core of video conferencing. Telemedicine
is also attractive because of get medicine by just a phone call. Patient don't need to
leave the home and go with traffic. Health care professional may able to reduce the
demand on their given aspect of time.

Conclusion
• As per the above discussion, the digitalisation is very essential in every field, the
healthcare adopted the digitalisation and it help in working the sector and prominent
and this provide many of advantage like promotion of health, information and in the
storage of patient data.

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