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Implementing A Digital Health Navigator: Strategies & Experience in The Hospital Setting to Alleviate Digital
Equity, Salim Saiyed, MD, MBA, Wern Lynn Ng, MD, Madeline Cherry, Safi Khattab, Hafsa Pathan
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The implementation of telemedicine and digital health technologies in healthcare has increased, but patients still need help adopting and utilizing these technologies. To address this, a Digital Health Navigator (DHN) program was implemented to evaluate the benefits of improving patients’ adoption. Authors introduced a holistic digital health navigator program designed to promote the utilization of digital tools among
hospitalized patients.
Feedback from patients indicated 98% of patients found the education and the DHN to be helpful. 92% recommend the UPMC Central PA Portal for accessing their healthcare information. The DHN program proves beneficial in promoting portal usage and addressing technological barriers experienced by patients.
Strategies and recommendations are provided for how to implement a program.
For more information on challenges of limited internet access, mitigating tech related anxiety, promoting hospital portal usage, implementation and sustained adoption – read the article at https://doi.org/10.30953/thmt.v9.462
THMT Cited by World Health Organization (WHO)