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Digital healthcare across Oceania

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M ANY NATIONS HAVE begun a serious exploration of digital health (DH)16,17 to address the pressures on their healthcare systems.1,3,9,12 Citizens and technologists are also driving related changes that facilitate… Click to show full abstract

M ANY NATIONS HAVE begun a serious exploration of digital health (DH)16,17 to address the pressures on their healthcare systems.1,3,9,12 Citizens and technologists are also driving related changes that facilitate growth in DH—for example, through the greater use of mobile technologies, sensors, extended reality, and artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies are part of DH as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), enabling new care paradigms that are distinguishable from older technologies like electronic medical records (EMRs). The impact of these DH technologies in healthcare in each country is captured through the concept of Digitally Enabled Healthcare Ecosystems (DEHEs). In this article, we address three questions in several national settings in Oceania (Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia). These key questions are: 1. What is the current state of progress of DH? 2. What is the apparent social license for DH? (for example, given concerns about privacy). 3. In the next 10 years, is DH likely to fully take hold? (for example, as evidenced by major disruption of traditional healthcare). Here, we explore these questions based on local expert opinion in the case of Malaysia and Singapore cross-referDOI:10.1145/3378420

Keywords: across oceania; digital healthcare; healthcare across; example; healthcare

Journal Title: Communications of the ACM
Year Published: 2020

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