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Future

In my last blog post, week five I’m going to write about an interesting article I have found from Academic Source Elite. In my last blog post I’m going to present and summarize the main ideas in the article and also combine the article to the digital health and to my previous blog posts. I have chosen an article about digital health combine with weight loss, and my article is named Adherent use of digital health trackers is associated with weight loss.

I think this article was very interesting to read because there came up the digitalization which is getting more and more used in the future. In the article they have study how activity trackers in a digital form is associated to weight loss. In the study there was also featured how the active trackers in digital form was affecting the people and the more and active you used the digital tracker the sport and food side the more result you have possibility to get in weight loss. In some points I’m disagree with the article because the digital apps isn’t always so reliable for everyone to use. It is the fact that everyone is different, and most of all the digital apps aren’t taking into considering all small different between every people instead I think there is always some standard they’re following. But in the study people using the app have get great result in weight loss.

Associated the article to my previous blog posts; I chose the article because health and digitalization is going to take a big place in the future. Many people are focused on how they look and you have the change to control yourself by many different digital apps for example your calories, weight loss, activity and health. In my opinion the digitalization and health in a digital version now and at least in the future is a good thing, because I think that someday everything is acting in a digital form because the world is changing all the time step by step.

References:

Foschini, L., Pourzanjani, A. & Quisel, T. 2016.

Adherent Use of Digital Health Trackers Is Associated with Weight Loss, 

United States of America, p. 14.

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Beat2Phone

In week four we have to search and take a look at different digital health apps or websites on internet for example. My attention woke up for a website called Beat2Phone. This website called Beat2Phone is a website which is completely strange to me and I have never before heard about it.

Beat2Phone is a app you can use on your phone which discover your heart. With Beat2Phone you can yourself record your own heart contour when you have some symptoms in the heart. The Beat2Phone resembles a heart rate monitor an it can be used during the day but also while sleeping. The app is simple, reliable and easy for private person to use but the app is also scheduled to professionals in health sector. In the app you have to choose do you want to use the app as a senior, a person with heart problems or a person who is sporting a lot.

My opinion of Beat2Phone is that it is a very brilliant idea, on the website it came up that the app is not already in function but they are next year starting to sell them. I think this could work fine because there are many people suffering from heart problems and the most of them is often older people who is then calling the ambulance and the ambulance staff is then measures the patients heart film. When the app is coming on sale, I think it could help the people in the future with heart problem, that they can check it out and maybe then notice that their heart is fine.

As I wrote in my earlier blog post about definitions, strategies and policies, the service is getting more digital in health centers and we have to get more comfortable with internet because it is there you have to do your “doctor visiting” in the future. With Beat2Phone the patient and the professionals could have a better connection online and I think the app could calm down many patients who are wondering of their heart symptoms and with the app people would be able to quickly read answers considering their heart.

References:

Van Gemert-pijnen, Lisette; Peters, Oscar & Ossebaard, Hans. 2013, Improving e Health. The Netherlands: Eleven international publishing s.35

Beat2Phone, available: http://beat2phone.com/ brought: 23.5.2017

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Privacy and eHealth

In my third blog post I’m going to write about privacy, which is one of the six ethical issues in Miesperä et. al. 2013 article. I’m going to write about privacy from an eHealth aspect. In nowadays many people are using for example our phone for internet and so on. I’m going to take myself as an example. I’m usually logging to my bank from my phone where I’m only using my user name and then a password, then I’m suddenly on my bank site where I can easily move money from one account to another in a few seconds. My point here is that everyone can use another’s usernames and passwords and get to each other’s bank accounts and steal some money. How can we be so sure as a professional at the bank for example that there is really the person it should be? It would be so different and in my opinion more reliable and safe if everyone should face to face visit the bank or the doctor and in that way handle things but I know, things different nowadays and that is something we only have to accept.

In Miesperä et. al. 2013 article there is pointing out that professionals only can do their best and for example double check their patients or clients identity to make sure that it is the right people. My idea and opinion is that the new technology and digitalization in eHealth is a good thing but in my opinion it could be more safe and privacy than it is now, but I think this is also coming soon in the future – namely finger prints to internet or at least phone apps when it is dealing privacy things like doctor visiting or bank visiting with very important information. In some phones there is already finger prints for logging in to a phone instead of a password, and I think that is a thing what’s make it more privacy and safe for both professionals and clients or patients in the new eHealth world.

 References:

Van Gemert-pijnen, Lisette; Peters, Oscar & Ossebaard, Hans. 2013, Improving e Health. The Netherlands: Eleven international publishing s. 35

Miesperä Anne, 2013. Ethical aspects of eHealth- systematic review of open access articles. FinJeHew, University of Oulu, Finland.

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Definitions, strategies & policies

As it came up in my last blog post digitalization and technology nowadays is more and more used by everyone in different ages. How the strategies and policies of digital eHealth and welfare is affecting us is difficult to say. In my opinion does it work well now, and I think we have to accept that the world is changing every minute by small steps. As I wrote in my last blog post there is both positive and negative aspects in the digitalization and “technology time” we are living.I think it is good that the new strategies and policies begin because then we have a better ability to act in internet for examples in health and care things like visiting doctors or getting medicines. The new services and policies are getting more service online, which means that we are hopefully getting help easier and faster than before when we should have been visiting the doctor at the hospital. Negative with the new strategies and policies are that some people may easier get outside the society or are using the new system in a wrong way. (Van Gemert-pijnen et. al 2013)

I think the subject eHealth is still very foreign for most of the people, what does it really mean? In the article What is eHealth written by Eysenbach and Boogerd they’re pointing out that eHealth is a new theme and that there is no short description of the word. The world eHealth is a wide theme and a lot more than just development of technology things. (Eysenbach&Boogerd)

In summary it is very hard to answer that how the definitions, strategies and policies in digital health is and how it affects us, but in the end I think the new strategies and policies is happening for a reason and I think it is bringing us something good in the end.

References:

Van Gemert-pijnen, Lisette; Peters, Oscar & Ossebaard, Hans. 2013, Improving e Health. The Netherlands: Eleven international publishing s. 35

Eysenbach, G . 2001, What is e-health? Journal of medical Internet Research, vol. 3, nr.2.

Boogerd, E.A; Arts, T; Engelen, L; van de Belt, T.H. “What is eHelath”: Time for An Update? JMIR Res Protoc 2015; 4(1):e29

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Do you see that digitalization will change the everyday life of individuals and professionals in the field of health and welfare?

Today`s society is almost in every way different from what it was in the past. In today’s society we are using different types of technology in different work and older. Nowadays works and people working are dependent on technology. Basically everyone is using some kind of technology on our free time, school or at work. Today’s technology is so much development that you can use it in which form you want. There are for examples apps which you can download on your phone, computer or to your watch for example if you want to have  control over your workout, your food calories, communicate with friends on chat and so on. Positive with the new technology is that everything is possible nowadays and for example in health care the doctors have easier to have information on every patient on the computer instead of o map full of paper. Negative with the technology is that many people get easily dependent on the apps but also that elderly people have it much more difficult to learn the new apps and technology than young people who has grown up with the technology. It is hard to say how the digitalization will chance the everyday life of individuals and professionals because it has already changed a lot and I think it is happening step by step. Of course as a professional there is for sure much more work with a computer than it was ten years ago with paper work. The elder people who is working and has not grown up with the digitalization and new technology have for sure it more difficult to learn from scratch one but I think that it in the end rewards because then the work is going more easily. Different courses in digitalization and technology should be offered at different workplaces so that everyone has the same opportunity to learn and work in a convenient way. It is the future that shows what will happen and when. (Van Gemert-pijnen et. al 2013)

References:

Van Gemert-pijnen, Lisette; Peters, Oscar & Ossebaard, Hans. 2013, Improving e Health. The Netherlands: Eleven international publishing s. 35

What is digital inclusion. 2009. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9wzn4lelk brought 8.5.2017

The health aware world. 2015. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Hrq9nvnbV-4&feature=youtu.be brought 8.5.207