Personal digital health hubs for multiple conditions

According to Prof Mellick Chehade, Chair G-MUSC Education Task Force and team, “Health-related, socioeconomic, cultural and environmental factors, as well as patient behaviour, all influence the outcomes of multimorbidity. Addressing these complex and often interacting biopsychosocial factors therefore requires a shift in treatment from a physical damage model towards person-centred integrated care with increased patient agency”

Recognizing the increasing importance of patient agency in driving the evolution of health care, they describe the concept of a web-based personal digital health hub for integrated patient care, share their early experience in the implementation of a health hub around a cohort of patients with hip fractures, and describe a vision for future health care based on the co-creation of digital health hubs centred on patients’ and carers’ needs.

Read their recent publication here Personal digital health hubs for multiple conditions
Mellick J Chehade, Lalit Yadav, Asangi Jayatilaka, Tiffany K Gill & Edward Palmer; Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2020;98:569–575; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.19.249136