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Què és la Carpeta Personal de Salut?

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Estructura de la CPSLa Carpeta Personal de Salut (CPS) pretèn ser el lloc on tots puguem consultar les nostres dades d’història clínica generades en accedir als centres públics i concertats del Departament de Salut. El seu accés és protegit, jo diria extremadament protegit, i només si pot accedir si es disposa del certificat digital, o bé IdCAT o bé el DNIe . Tots dos mètodes requereixen anar personalment a validar la contrasenya personal, en el cas del DNIe, que és el que utilitzo jo, cal anar a una dependència de la Policia Nacional … tot plegat molt complicat.

Cal tenir un lector USB del DNI electrònic i instal.lar uns certificats digitals a l’ordinador. Difícil per usuaris no experts i, fins it tot si ets un usuari avançat costa molt de seguir el procés. Continua llegint →

Can patients improve their own health ? Results from a study of smartphone use in diabetes and hypertension

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Can patients improve their own health ? Results from a study of smartphone use in diabetes and hypertension.

It is clear, being at home is always the best. Nevertheless is it cost efficient ? What about people with chronic disease ? As usual there is a chicken and egg circle, until technology is deployed to big amounts of patients, the costs will not be low. If we assume that public healthcare systems need to decrease costs as the public system is not more sustainable (or dramatically over budget), the only chance is going for some remote patient monitoring systems that combine good professional health care at home but being effective based on the remote eHealth monitoring systems.

In general people is not ready for health technology, and health technology and their devices and systems, are not enough user friendly. Think about the elders, the segment of population above 60, far away from being tech-lovers or even worst tech users, and demanding always more face to face attention. The key will be the right combination between direct care services and the use of eHealth systems. One of the hopes is that new generations, and in fact the sons and daughters of current elders, are either digital natives or digital immigrants, they may adopt faster some good eHealth solutions, if they can bring a better quality of life to their parents. Early adopters will not be the patients but the relatives and care givers of the patients. This is the challenge.