Question

Technology has become a large part of most of our worlds. We are all plugged into everything that is going on in the world from news, to music, to our patient portals of our health care facility’s EHR. We have apps and access and multiple ways that we can now access our medical records.

The demand for this digital health information is driven by many factors, such as increasing healthcare costs, policy changes to promote safer, higher-quality healthcare, and consumer interest.

In your opinion, is this access to digital health beneficial or detrimental to patients? Also, take into consideration those patients with limited health literacy, does this change your opinion of this access? Support your reasoning.

Answer 1

I think digital health is beneficial.Because digital health and health records may helps to the patients to get quicker and easy access to their test results.This may helps to the patients and healthcare professional for the easy verification of their medical conditions and medications.The proper verification of past and present medications may helps to identify the medication errors.The digital health platform may helps to pay the bills.It also helps the pharmacists for easy and accurate dispensing through a computerized prescription order entry system.Through this digital health instructions and information is more simple for the patients and health care professionals.Digital health also helps to save the time because billing become easy and quicker access of the data.Patients with limited health literacy it is difficult to access the digital heath.But there should be a system must be develop to provide the proper education for patients those who are unable to access the digital health.Because digital health is very complicated and complex process.Sometimes certain hackers can approach and access the patient medical record.Digital health is very expensive some times we need to upgrade.