Abstract:Rationale, aims and objectives: As government-funded healthcare provisions are stretched to their limits, it is important that healthcare professionals provide evidence-based advice about minor ailments to facilitate people’s abilities to self-treat these conditions effectively and appropriately, given that self-care is one of the many components of person-centered healthcare. Unfortunately, despite the expanding over-the-counter (OTC) medicines market, there have been doubts cast about advice given by UK comm… Show more
“…As alluded to previously, technology and mobile apps are also used to support education and professional practice, including enabling the provision of up-to-date, evidence-based information at the point of care and enhancing decision-making in patient management (Hanna and Hall 2018;Keyworth et al 2018). However, it should be noted that while technology-based interventions may have theoretical benefits for healthcare professionals, this does not mean they will be readily implemented or successful in practice (Keyworth et al 2018).…”
Section: Leveraging Mobile Technology For Next-generation Telemedicin...mentioning
The ongoing emergence of technology in healthcare to enhance patient outcomes. In D. Lamprou (Ed.), Emerging drug delivery and biomedical engineering technologies: transforming therapy (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences). CRC Press.
“…As alluded to previously, technology and mobile apps are also used to support education and professional practice, including enabling the provision of up-to-date, evidence-based information at the point of care and enhancing decision-making in patient management (Hanna and Hall 2018;Keyworth et al 2018). However, it should be noted that while technology-based interventions may have theoretical benefits for healthcare professionals, this does not mean they will be readily implemented or successful in practice (Keyworth et al 2018).…”
Section: Leveraging Mobile Technology For Next-generation Telemedicin...mentioning
The ongoing emergence of technology in healthcare to enhance patient outcomes. In D. Lamprou (Ed.), Emerging drug delivery and biomedical engineering technologies: transforming therapy (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences). CRC Press.
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