Caring for patients during and beyond the corona crisis: The need for digital transformation of health information provision to acutely and chronically ill patients (DigiCare) (completed)
The project, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, is dedicated to digital communication between healthcare professionals and patients, particularly with regard to new forms of information provision for patients. The coronavirus pandemic has recently highlighted how challenging it can be to provide adequate care for acutely and chronically ill patients due to the need to avoid healthcare. In order to meet patients' strong need for high-quality information, the digital provision of information by healthcare professionals seems to be essential and is able to overcome new barriers to healthcare during and after health crises. The aim of the project is to assess the potential of the digital transformation of health information provision from the perspective of both patients and healthcare professionals and to investigate the impact of digital information formats on patient trust, satisfaction, knowledge and treatment compliance. The project is supported by the startup Medicstream, which will be used as an example to research the impact of existing services in particular.
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Project Duration
April 2021 to September 2022
Publications
Patients’ intentions to use a physician-provided digital health information service: Findings from an online survey with a stratified German sample (2024)
Memenga, P. & Link, E. (2024). Patients’ intentions to use a physician-provided digital health information service: Findings from an online survey with a stratified German sample. European Journal of Health Communication, 5(2), 1-22. DOI: 10.47368/ejhc.2024.201
Digital, personalised health information services from doctors: Results of a survey of patients and doctors on acceptance and requirements (2023)
Link, E. & Memenga, P. (2023). Digitale, personalisierte Gesundheitsinformationsangebote von Ärzt*innen: Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Patient*innen und Ärzt*innen zu Akzeptanz und Anforderungen. Bundesgesundheitsblatt – Gesundheitsforschung – Gesundheitsschutz, 66, 982–989. DOI: 10.1007/s00103-023-03750-z
Presentations
Linking Health Resources and Health Outcomes through Information Seeking: A Quantitative Survey of German Patients with Heart Failure (2024)
Beckmann, A., Memenga, P. & Link, E. (November, 2024). Linking Health Resources and Health Outcomes through Information Seeking: A Quantitative Survey of German Patients with Heart Failure. Presentation at the annual conference of the DGPuK Health Communication Specialist Group, November 20th to 22nd 2024, Zurich, Schwitzerland.
Supporting Patients’ Self-Determination Through Physicians’ Provision of a Digital Health Information Service (2023)
Memenga, P. & Link, E. (November, 2023). Supporting Patients’ Self-Determination Through Physicians’ Provision of a Digital Health Information Service. Short lecture at the European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC), November 15th to 17th 2023, Klagenfurt, Austria.
Towards the digital transformation of medical information provision: promoting patient empowerment through digital information services (2022)
Link, E. & Memenga, P. (2022, November). Auf dem Weg zur digitalen Transformation der ärztlichen Informationsbereitstellung: Förderung der Selbstverantwortung von Patient*innen durch digitale Informationsangebote. Lecture at the 7th Annual Conference of the DGPuK Health Communication Specialist Group, November 16th to 18th 2022, Bielefeld, Germany.
Predictors of Patients’ Intentions to Use a Physician-Provided Digital Health Information Service: Extending the UTAUT2 by Informational Social Norms and eHealth Literacy (2022)
Memenga, P. & Link, E. (2022, October). Predictors of Patients’ Intentions to Use a Physician-Provided Digital Health Information Service: Extending the UTAUT2 by Informational Social Norms and eHealth Literacy. Presentation at the 9th European Communication Conference (ECREA), October, 19th to 22nd 2022, Aarhus, Denmark.
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