Scale-up of Digital Innovations in Health Care: Expert Commentary on Enablers and Barriers.

Health care delivery is undergoing a rapid change from traditional processes toward the use of digital health interventions and personalized medicine. This movement has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis as a response to the need to guarantee access to health care services while reducing the risk of contagion. Digital health scale-up is now also vital to achieve population-wide impact: it will only accomplish sustainable effects if and when deployed into regular health care delivery services.

Evaluation is Key: Providing Appropriate Evaluation Measures for Participatory and User-Centred Design Processes of Healthcare IT.

Introduction: The increasing availability of healthcare IT has the potential to improve the integration of health services. Existing projects developing healthcare IT mostly disregard the potential and importance of incorporating user feedback and proper evaluation measures to gain user feedback throughout the development process. We therefore provide methodological guidance for evaluation in a stepwise user-centred design process.

Automated Engineering for Health Smart Homes: Find a Way in the Jungle of Assistance Systems.

Health Smart Homes are a promising part of digital personalized health care. However, engineering of the underlying residential assistance systems is a complex process that needs to be supported by computer-based design tools. This paper presents a formal definition for the engineering task and proposes a methodology for model-driven design process automation, that is implemented in a web-based pilot application.

Defining and Delimitating Telemedicine and Related Terms - An Ontology-Based Classification.

The way health care is delivered changes continuously and is increasingly supported by digital technologies, such as telemedicine. Many terms in that context exist, which are not defined consistently and therefore used ambiguously. This makes it difficult to assess the evidence base.

Identifying Obstacles and Research Gaps of Telemedicine Projects: Approach for a State-of-the-Art Analysis.

This paper presents an approach for an evaluation of finished telemedicine projects using qualitative methods. Telemedicine applications are said to improve the performance of health care systems. While there are countless telemedicine projects, the vast majority never makes the threshold from testing to implementation and diffusion.