digital health applications

Rohilla U, Ramarao JP, Lane J, Khatri NN, Smith J, Yin K, Lau AY. How general practitioners and patients discuss type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases concerns during consultations: Implications for digital health. Digital Health. 2023 Jul;9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231176162

How general practitioners and patients discuss type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases concerns during consultations: Implications for digital health Increasingly, patients are expected to take care of their health outside of medical settings (i.e. self-management).1 Self-management includes the actions taken by individuals to lead a healthy lifestyle, manage their long-term condition and prevent further illness,

Redfern J, Coorey G, Mulley J, Scaria A, Neubeck L, Hafiz N, Pitt C, Weir K, Forbes J, Parker S, Bampi F, Coenen A, Enright G, Wong A, Nguyen T, Harris M, Zwar N, Chow CK, Rodgers A, Heeley E, Panaretto K, Lau A, Hayman N, Usherwood T, Peiris D. A digital health intervention for cardiovascular disease management in primary care (CONNECT) randomized controlled trial. NPJ Digit Med. 2020 Sep 10;3:117. doi: 10.1038/s41746-020-00325-z. PMID: 32964140; PMCID: PMC7484809.

Digital health applications (apps) have the potential to improve health behaviors and outcomes. We aimed to examine the effectiveness of a consumer web-based app linked to primary care electronic health records (EHRs). CONNECT was a multicenter randomized controlled trial involving patients with or at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) recruited from primary care (Clinical Trial