2020
DOI: 10.1111/acps.13149
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Digital navigators to implement smartphone and digital tools in care

Abstract: Digital navigators to implement smartphone and digital tools in careWisniewski H, Torous J. Digital navigators to implement smartphone and digital tools in care.While smartphone apps and other digital health tools have the clear potential to increase both quality of and access to care, actual successful implementation remains limited. Challenges often encountered in seeking to use apps in care include selecting safe/effective tools, spending clinical time troubleshooting technology instead of discussing health… Show more

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“…There have been recent efforts to develop frameworks of clinician competencies and app evaluation criteria to help address this problem (Hilty et al 2020 ; Torous et al 2018c ). However, to reduce provider burden, some have suggested the need for technology specialists or digital navigators tasked with introducing apps to patients (Ben-Zeev et al 2015 ; Noel et al 2019 ; Wisiewski and Torous 2020 ). Research is needed regarding how successful such arrangements are in practice.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…There have been recent efforts to develop frameworks of clinician competencies and app evaluation criteria to help address this problem (Hilty et al 2020 ; Torous et al 2018c ). However, to reduce provider burden, some have suggested the need for technology specialists or digital navigators tasked with introducing apps to patients (Ben-Zeev et al 2015 ; Noel et al 2019 ; Wisiewski and Torous 2020 ). Research is needed regarding how successful such arrangements are in practice.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Furthermore, health services are also encouraged to consider the addition of a digital navigator to their care team to improve the uptake and implementation of HITs within care [56]. The role of a digital navigator is 3-fold: (1) evaluate HITs, such as apps, and make appropriate recommendations to health professionals; (2) set up technology and troubleshoot with the consumer, thereby allowing the health professional to focus on the clinical interaction with the consumer; and (3) interpret and report salient data collected by the HIT to both the consumer and the health professional in a user-friendly way to inform care and self-management.…”
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“…Our personal experience in teaching psychiatry residents about mobile mental health in formal didactics has been positive, and there are already many examples of teaching telehealth [36,37]. Training new care team members around digital health, a role we have termed a digital navigator [38], offers opportunities to easily liaison between digital and classical care. Although training does not offer an immediate solution to the current crisis, it creates the workforce and builds the capacity to support increased access to care for the mental health sequelae of the current crisis and readiness for the next.…”
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