Decision making in digital health: usage of the cost-effectiveness analysis to improve the sustainability of the healthcare system
Healthcare systems worldwide are facing a number of challenges that are conjunctural to the historical moment and are somehow reshaping a discipline as traditional as medicine. The five major challenges that are defining the future landscape of healthcare practice can be classified into: 1) Demograp...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/674090 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/674090 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | salut digital salud digital digital health eSalut eSalud eHealth salut electrònica salud electrónica electronic health cost-efectivitat coste-efectividad cost-effectiveness cost-utilitat coste-utilidad cost-utility Ciències de la Informació i la Comunicació 004 33 61 62 |
| Sumario: | Healthcare systems worldwide are facing a number of challenges that are conjunctural to the historical moment and are somehow reshaping a discipline as traditional as medicine. The five major challenges that are defining the future landscape of healthcare practice can be classified into: 1) Demographic change, 2) Urbanization, 3) Deliver patient-centric care, 4) Moving the focus from reactive to proactive medicine and 5) Adoption of digital health technologies. The healthcare sector has been particularly slow in the adoption of digital technologies. When this PhD project started in 2017, the implementation at-scale of digital health was being impeded by numerous barriers, with the dearth of evidence-based research and the lack of proper economic studies around their implementation being the two biggest issues. Acknowledging the abovementioned challenges, the main aim of this PhD thesis was to assess the cost-effectiveness of digital health solutions designed to support the management of major chronic conditions that can be implemented within the Catalan health system. |
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