Healthcare IT News April 26, 2024
Digital transformation of healthcare not only requires investments in digital technology, but also in digital health literacy. This must be coordinated across three critical levels: individual, institutional and policy-making.
Digital literacy is defined as the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create and communicate information. This requires both technical skills to operate digital platforms, devices and apps, and cognitive skills for understanding and analysing the information being created.
“About 40% of European citizens have problematic digital health literacy, which means that they cannot use digital health technologies adequately to address their health issues,” says Sarah Wamala Andersson, professor of Health and Welfare Technology at the Mälardalen University in Sweden and a digital health thought leader. Wamala...
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