About this Research Topic
There has been a rapid push to integrate digital technologies into the existing health systems of low- and middle-income countries to ensure continued routine out-patient and follow-up care during the Covid-19 pandemic, where several lockdowns were imposed by the Governments to contain the spread of the virus. Innovative service delivery models using digital technologies have the potential to improve access and care coordination across health care facilities by overcoming the conventional logjams and weaknesses that currently exist within the traditional systems. To leverage digital technologies potential to provide more personalized care, and treatments there is a need to develop national guidelines on technology implementation standards and data protection for providing better services.
Despite implementation of successful pilots, effective integration of digital interventions to provide optimal benefits for the health system on large scale, will require changes in the programmatic design to correspond with the objective of the health programs. There are several barriers that are inherent across delivery care settings in LMICs for digital innovations better adoption. Specific barriers to digital technology adoption need to be identified and strategies to overcome those barriers must be evaluated. Hence the major aim of the Research Topic is to identify specific organizational, and related barriers and facilitators for successful implementation of digital technologies in the public settings in LMICS.
To address the scope of the topic we particularly encourage contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Articles that describe field experiences, reviews and opinion articles on barriers and enablers to implementation of digital innovations in public health settings in LMICs
• Original studies looking at the effectiveness of digital innovation providing screening, diagnosis, referral, follow up and treatment of the patient.
• Case reports on feasibility or user acceptability of digital interventions
• Papers describing novel study designs for implementation of digital technologies.
• Qualitative work exploring implementation challenges like (patient and health care providers needs for successful implementation).
Despite implementation of successful pilots, effective integration of digital interventions to provide optimal benefits for the health system on large scale, will require changes in the programmatic design to correspond with the objective of the health programs. There are several barriers that are inherent across delivery care settings in LMICs for digital innovations better adoption. Specific barriers to digital technology adoption need to be identified and strategies to overcome those barriers must be evaluated. Hence the major aim of the Research Topic is to identify specific organizational, and related barriers and facilitators for successful implementation of digital technologies in the public settings in LMICS.
To address the scope of the topic we particularly encourage contributions that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
• Articles that describe field experiences, reviews and opinion articles on barriers and enablers to implementation of digital innovations in public health settings in LMICs
• Original studies looking at the effectiveness of digital innovation providing screening, diagnosis, referral, follow up and treatment of the patient.
• Case reports on feasibility or user acceptability of digital interventions
• Papers describing novel study designs for implementation of digital technologies.
• Qualitative work exploring implementation challenges like (patient and health care providers needs for successful implementation).
Keywords: Implementation Research, Digital Health, Mhealth, Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Public health, Ethics
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