13/01/2025
https://dtjournal.org/ Rethinking the article titled "Health Care Digital Strategy: Designing the New Norm" by our new Deputy Co-Editor in Chief Dr. Kilipiris
The time has arrived when oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) teams must redesign patient care by offering high-quality, easy, and cost-effective virtual care services through digital tools and telemedicine. Only a few pilot programs have been established to date, but now, the new norm requests large-scale routine services. The healthcare institutions should build this strategy based on their long-term goals. A prime example of its successful implementation is our unit at the National Institute of Children's Diseases (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), where a reliable telemedicine program was implemented for the outpatient follow-up visits of patients operated on for craniosynostosis. This program was instrumental in maintaining the long-lasting and high-impact character of craniosynostosis care during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The parents of the children were surveyed to evaluate the new program's effectiveness. The results were overwhelmingly positive, with an overall parental satisfaction rate of 72.3% and a 67.2% convenience rate for the services. The returned questionnaires revealed that 79.3% of parents were satisfied with physicians' communication, and 88.7% agreed that the virtual meetings adequately addressed their clinical needs.Moving forward, healthcare centers and physicians should organize their time and resources to experiment with the rapidly growing list of digital tools. The organizations should prioritize adapting their clinical information technology (IT) systems for optimal telemedicine practices. With the rapid technological advancements, new digital clinical systems should incorporate the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in sophisticated virtual systems. This will require an even closer collaboration between clinicians, scholars, allied healthcare providers, healthcare leaders, and digital system designers. It is clear that in today´s complex healthcare ecosystem, the present and future of care delivery is digital. Will modern OMS teams adopt these strategies? It is something that all of us anticipate with huge interest.
Стаття під назвою "Цифрова стратегія охорони здоров’я: розробка нової норми" авторства Евангелоса Кіліпіріса - одного із заступників головного редактора
