SERIES : eHealth in primary care. Part 1: Concepts, conditions and challenges

摘要: Primary care is challenged to provide high quality, accessible and affordable for an increasingly ageing, complex, multimorbid population. To counter these challenges, primary professionals need take up new innovative practices, including eHealth. eHealth applications hold the promise overcome some difficulties encountered in of people with complex medical social needs care. However, many unanswered questions regarding (cost) effectiveness, integration healthcare, acceptability patients, caregivers, remain be elucidated. What conditions met? challenges overcome? downsides must dealt with? This first paper a series on introduces basic concepts examines opportunities uptake We illustrate that although potential high, several met ensure safe high-quality developed implemented research optimized; ensuring evidence-based available. Blended care, i.e. combining face-to-face remote options, personalized individual patient should considered. Stakeholders involved development implementation via co-creation processes, design mindful vulnerable groups illiteracy. Furthermore, global perspective adopted, ethics, patients' safety privacy