- Title
- The role of ehealth in optimizing preventive care in the primary care setting
- Creator
- Carey, Mariko; Noble, Natasha; Mansfield, Elise; Waller, Amy; Henskens, Frans; Sanson-Fisher, Rob
- Relation
- Journal of Medical Internet Research Vol. 17, Issue 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3817
- Publisher
- JMIR Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Modifiable health risk behaviors such as smoking, overweight and obesity, risky alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition contribute to a substantial proportion of the world's morbidity and mortality burden. General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in identifying and managing modifiable health risk behaviors. However, these are often underdetected and undermanaged in the primary care setting. We describe the potential of eHealth to help patients and GPs to overcome some of the barriers to managing health risk behaviors. In particular, we discuss (1) the role of eHealth in facilitating routine collection of patient-reported data on lifestyle risk factors, and (2) the role of eHealth in improving clinical management of identified risk factors through provision of tailored feedback, point-of-care reminders, tailored educational materials, and referral to online self-management programs. Strategies to harness the capacity of the eHealth medium, including the use of dynamic features and tailoring to help end users engage with, understand, and apply information need to be considered and maximized. Finally, the potential challenges in implementing eHealth solutions in the primary care setting are discussed. In conclusion, there is significant potential for innovative eHealth solutions to make a contribution to improving preventive care in the primary care setting. However, attention to issues such as data security and designing eHealth interfaces that maximize engagement from end users will be important to moving this field forward.
- Subject
- eHealth; internet; prevention; general practice; family practice; evidence-based practice; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336223
- Identifier
- uon:27572
- Identifier
- ISSN:1438-8871
- Rights
- © Mariko Carey, Natasha Noble, Elise Mansfield, Amy Waller, Frans Henskens, Rob Sanson-Fisher. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 22.05.2015. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Hits: 1921
- Visitors: 2315
- Downloads: 412
Collections
Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
| Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View Details Download | ATTACHMENT02 | Publisher version (open access) | 172 KB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |