OPEN Health
Emanuele Arcà, MSc - Senior Research Consultant
Emanuele Arcà, MSc, is a Senior Research Consultant in Strategic Market Access at OPEN Health. Emanuele has over 5 years’ experience in conducting literature reviews, stakeholder interviews and policy analysis. He worked across several disease areas and dimensions of health policy and his core expertise is in systematic literature reviews, stakeholder interviews, Health Technology Assessment policy, Delphi panels, and digital health technologies.
An article written by Emanuele Arcá
Awareness & Acceptability Will Drive Adoption of Digital Health Technologies
Telemedicine. Electronic health records. Digital Medicines. Wearable health technology that tracks individuals’ sleep patterns, activity, heart rate and rhythm.
These digital health technologies have already changed the ways in which patients and providers interact. They have blurred lines, altered the traditional balance of power and expanded the reach—and potential—of healthcare. Moving forward, digital health is poised to help individuals, health systems and societies pivot toward prevention and personalized medicine.
How helpful health technology will be, however, depends on human use. A digital tool that is not deployed cannot effect change, no matter how innovative the technology.
Awareness and acceptability of digital health technology must become a priority for those hoping to use it to improve human health.