scholarly journals The Rise of Digital Health and Potential Implications for Pharmacy Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40
Author(s):  
Mickayla Clark ◽  
Thomas Clark ◽  
Afeefa Bhatti ◽  
Timothy Aungst
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Comfort Levels ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

The rise of technology in healthcare has led to dramatic changes in approaches to patient care by healthcare professionals. The realm of digital health has created new opportunities for pharmacists to engage patients in clinical practice. Pharmacies and industry are increasingly integrating these innovations into their businesses and practice. This article highlights areas of digital health for pharmacists to be aware of, in particular regarding areas of medication adherence and disease management. Technology plays a massive role in our individual lives; it has morphed the human experience in ways that were simply unimaginable 50 years ago. We use technology in nearly every facet of our lives. From detecting an appropriate intensity with which to brush our teeth to counting calories lost through the course of a day, technology has made a major impact on individual health. The integration of technology into our everyday lives has changed the way we communicate, how we capture and share our lives with others, how we seek answers, and how we experience life overall. Given this change in the way people operate, it is important that pharmacists adapt to these trends and incorporate technology into daily practice. The incorporation of mobile devices and technology into healthcare has been coined as mobile health (mHealth), which falls under the broader spectrum of digital health.1 –4 Digital health focuses on the integration of mobile tools (e.g., smartphones), wearable devices, and telehealth to help personalize the treatment of patients through the widespread adoption of wireless technology. The idea of involving pharmacists in mHealth has been a topic of recent interest, due in large part to the potential ramifications for the profession.4 Today, patients are using the Internet to research their health questions and help guide their personal health choices, and some of the information they find can be misleading and unreliable. It is of the utmost importance that healthcare professionals ensure there are credible sources for patients to research their questions. As pharmacists, we can research and recommend tools to patients to help solve problems related to drug information, medication adherence, and access, which includes the recent rise of novel technological devices. All of our patients will have different comfort levels with technology; despite this spectrum, there is a place for everyone to feel comfortable using digital health tools. However, there are recent technological advances coming to the field, which are already providing a benefit to patients, ranging from mobile applications to wearable technologies to ingestible medications that notify providers of patient medication adherence. We seek to help pharmacists understand the different areas of digital health, which may have substantial influence on the realm of pharmacy practice in the years to come by addressing current and upcoming digital health developments.

scholarly journals Cloud Computing for Industry 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 250-253
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Computing Paradigm ◽  
Huge Data ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

The cloud computing paradigm is a never-ending topic of research providing its users with state-of-the-art technological benefits. Its rapid adoption by various companies has paved the way for the Industry 4.0 model. In this paper, we try to consolidate our research on cloud computing to be a part of Industry 4.0. The 4th industrial revolution, after the steam engine, electric power, and electronics being the marker of the first, second, and third revolution, respectively, is referred to as Industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 has a great potential to change the manufacturing sector drastically, and the way factories work by automating the different processes. It transforms the conventional pyramid model to a more rigid and efficient network model of interconnected services, which makes it possible for operational technologies and information technologies to come under a single umbrella and work together with higher utilization of various resources. These interconnected services produce a huge data, which makes its storage and efficient analysis very crucial. Therefore, cloud computing, along with big data become the two most important pillars in the Industry 4.0 model. In this paper, we focus on the cloud computing aspect of the Industry 4.0 model. That is, how we can use the various new advances which are happening in cloud computing and how these new technological advances can be incorporated into the Industry 4.0 model as well as the need, benefits, and difficulties of applying cloud computing technology in Industry 4.0.

scholarly journals European Network to Advance Best Practices and Technology on Medication Adherence: Mission Statement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Job FM van Boven ◽  
Ioanna Tsiligianni ◽  
Ines Potočnjak ◽  
Jovan Mihajlović ◽  
Alexandra L. Dima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Network ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Push Forward ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Medication non-adherence is associated with almost 200,000 deaths annually and €80–125 billion in the European Union. Novel technological advances (smart pill bottles, digital inhalers and spacers, electronic pill blisters, e-injection pens, e-Health applications, big data) could help managing non-adherence. Healthcare professionals seem however inadequately informed about non-adherence, availability of technological solutions in daily practice is limited, and collaborative efforts to push forward their implementation are scarce. The European Network to Advance Best practices and technoLogy on medication adherencE (ENABLE, COST Action 19132) aims to 1) raise awareness of adherence enhancing solutions, 2) foster knowledge on medication adherence, 3) accelerate clinical application of novel technologies and 4) work collaboratively towards economically viable policy, and implementation of adherence enhancing technology across healthcare systems.

Dealing with relapse

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Catherine Wilson Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Binge Eating ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

For too many years, I have been an enigma to those who have tried to help me completely recover from bulimia and binge eating. It has taken me years and countless attempts to come to a place where I can now completely own my eating while at the same time acknowledging that I need and want people around me who are encouraging and supportive but not necessarily focused on what I eat or do not eat. I am so grateful to be where I am today and I cannot thank all those who have helped me along the way enough. I feel especially grateful to those who tried to help but “failed” because I was not getting it. Well, I’ve got it now. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for caring and trying and trying again and again. Each person who has attempted to help me has contributed in some way, even if it did not feel like it at the time. If you are a person who helps others around food and eating, please don’t quit. Please do not give up on even the hardest or quirkiest of cases. We need your support and encouragement.

Rediseñando las Organizaciones del Futuro. El impacto de la transformación digital en el mundo del trabajo

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-226
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Piñeyro Prins ◽  
Guadalupe E. Estrada Narvaez
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
The People ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
The Way

We are witnessing how new technologies are radically changing the design of organizations, the way in which they produce and manage both their objectives and their strategies, and -above all- how digital transformation impacts the people who are part of it. Even today in our country, many organizations think that digitalizing is having a presence on social networks, a web page or venturing into cases of success in corporate social intranet. Others begin to invest a large part of their budget in training their teams and adapting them to the digital age. But given this current scenario, do we know exactly what the digital transformation of organizations means? It is necessary? Implying? Is there a roadmap to follow that leads to the success of this process? How are organizations that have been born 100% digital from their business conception to the way of producing services through the use of platforms? What role does the organizational culture play in this scenario? The challenge of the digital transformation of businesses and organizations, which is part of the paradigm of the industrial revolution 4.0, is happening here and now in all types of organizations, whether are they private, public or third sector. The challenge to take into account in this process is to identify the digital competences that each worker must face in order to accompany these changes and not be left out of it. In this sense, the present work seeks to analyze the main characteristics of the current technological advances that make up the digital transformation of organizations and how they must be accompanied by a digital culture and skills that allow their successful development. In order to approach this project, we will carry out an exploratory research, collecting data from the sector of new actors in the world of work such as employment platforms in its various areas (gastronomy, delivery, transportation, recreation, domestic service, etc) and an analysis of the main technological changes that impact on the digital transformation of organizations in Argentina.

Christ-Centered Peregrinatio: The Mediated Journey

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
Dual Roles ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Union With God ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses how Christ bridges the human–divine, temporal–eternal, earthly–heavenly realms by healing and purifying the believer for union with God. This union with God consists of knowing and loving God—imperfectly in this life, but perfectly in the life to come. This union happens through the conformation of the believer to Christ in love, which forms the believer for rightly ordered relationships with God, self, and neighbor. Augustine pictures the process of conformation as the journey to the homeland, a pilgrimage the believer makes to God in Christ. Christ is the way to the homeland and he is the way because he is the homeland. Christ’s mediating and healing work is inextricably tied to his dual roles as the way and the end.

Corporate Reorganization Law and Forces of Change

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Paterson
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Corporate Reorganization ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This book is concerned with the way in which forces of change, from the fields of finance and non-financial corporates, cause participants in the corporate reorganization process to adapt the ways in which they mobilize corporate reorganization law. It argues that scholars, practitioners, judges, and the legislature must all take care to connect their conceptual frameworks to the specific adaptations which emerge from this process of change. It further argues that this need to connect theoretical and policy concepts with practical adaptations has posed particular challenges when US corporate reorganization law has been under examination in the decade since the financial crisis. At the same time, the book suggests that English scholars, practitioners, judges, and the legislature have been more successful, over the course of the past ten years, in choosing concepts to frame their analysis which are sensitive to the ways in which corporate reorganization law is currently used. Nonetheless, it suggests that new problems may be on the horizon for English corporate reorganization lawyers in adapting their conceptual framework in the decades to come.

Digital Ophthalmology in the UK – Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Virtual Glaucoma Clinics in the National Health Service

2020 ◽  
Vol 237 (12) ◽  
pp. 1400-1408
Author(s):  
Heinrich Heimann ◽  
Deborah Broadbent ◽  
Robert Cheeseman
Keyword(s):  
Diabetic Retinopathy ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Diabetic Retinopathy Screening ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Imaging Results ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Retinopathy Screening

AbstractThe customary doctor and patient interactions are currently undergoing significant changes through technological advances in imaging and data processing and the need for reducing person-to person contacts during the COVID-19 crisis. There is a trend away from face-to-face examinations to virtual assessments and decision making. Ophthalmology is particularly amenable to such changes, as a high proportion of clinical decisions are based on routine tests and imaging results, which can be assessed remotely. The uptake of digital ophthalmology varies significantly between countries. Due to financial constraints within the National Health Service, specialized ophthalmology units in the UK have been early adopters of digital technology. For more than a decade, patients have been managed remotely in the diabetic retinopathy screening service and virtual glaucoma clinics. We describe the day-to-day running of such services and the doctor and patient experiences with digital ophthalmology in daily practice.

scholarly journals Towards a Unitary Case for Russellian Panpsychism

Philosophia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Dondoni
Keyword(s):  
Identity Theory ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Categorical Properties ◽  
Consciousness Studies ◽  
Powerful Qualities ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

AbstractOne of the most pressing challenges that occupy the Russellian panpsychist’s agenda is to come up with a way to reconcile the traditional argument from categorical properties (Seager Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13(10–11), 129–145, 2006; Alter & Nagasawa, 2015) with H. H. Mørch’s dispositionalism-friendly argument from the experience of causation (2014, Topoi, 39, 1073–1088, 2018, 2020) — on the way to a unitary, all-encompassing case for the view. In this regard, Mørch claims that, via the commitment to the Identity theory of properties, one can consistently hold both panpsychist arguments without contradiction (2020: 281) — I shall refer to such proposal as Reconciliation. In my paper, I shall argue that this is not the case. To this extent, I will first consider H. Taylor’s argument that the Identity theorists have the exact same resources as the dispositionalists (as, after careful enquiry, their views on the metaphysics of properties turn out to coincide (Philosophical Studies, 175, 1423–1440, 2018: 1438)), and thus contend that Reconciliation fails to obtain. Then, I will suggest that one can avoid the problem and reconcile the arguments by adopting a different version of the powerful qualities view, namely the Compound view — and thus advance a reformulated version of the claim, i.e. Reconciliation*. Finally, even though pursuing my proposed solution might expose Russellian panpsychism to the risk of epiphenomenalism, I shall conclude that such specific form of epiphenomenalism is a rather benign one, and thus that, via Reconciliation*, the constitution of a unitary case for panpsychism as a positive proposal (and not as a mere alternative to dualism and physicalism) can be achieved.

scholarly journals Does Online Community Participation Contribute to Medication Adherence? An Empirical Study of Patients with Chronic Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 5100
Author(s):  
Jyh-Jeng Wu ◽  
Yueh-Mei Chen ◽  
Paul C. Talley ◽  
Kuang-Ming Kuo
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Informational Support ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
The Relationship

Effectively improving the medication adherence of patients is crucial. Past studies focused on treatment-related factors, but little attention has been paid to factors concerning human beliefs such as trust or self-efficacy. The purpose of this study is to explore the following aspects of patients with chronic diseases: (1) The relationship between emotional support, informational support, self-efficacy, and trust; (2) the relationship between self-efficacy, trust, and medication adherence; and, (3) whether chronic patients’ participation in different types of online communities brings about significant statistical differences in the relationships between the abovementioned variables. A questionnaire survey was conducted in this study, with 452 valid questionnaires collected from chronic patients previously participating in online community activities. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling analysis showed that emotional support and informational support positively predict self-efficacy and trust, respectively, and consequently, self-efficacy and trust positively predict medication adherence. In addition, three relationships including the influence of emotional support on trust, the influence of trust on medication adherence, and the influence of self-efficacy on medication adherence, the types of online communities result in significant statistical differences. Based on the findings, this research suggests healthcare professionals can enhance patients’ self-efficacy in self-care by providing necessary health information via face-to-face or online communities, and assuring patients of demonstrable support. As such, patients’ levels of trust in healthcare professionals can be established, which in turn improves their medication adherence.

Can animals sing? On birdsong, music and meaning

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hektor KT Yan
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
A Value ◽  
Music And Meaning ◽  
To Come ◽  
Factual Issue ◽  
The Way

This article deals with conceptual questions regarding claims to the effect that humans and animals share artistic abilities such as the possession of music. Recent works focusing on animals, from such as Hollis Taylor and Dominique Lestel, are discussed. The attribution of artistic traits in human and animal contexts is examined by highlighting the importance of issues relating to categorization and evaluation in cross-species studies. An analogy between the denial of major attributes to animals and a form of racism is drawn in order to show how questions pertaining to meaning can impact on our understanding of animal abilities. One of the major theses presented is that the question of whether animals possess music cannot be answered by a methodology that is uninformed by the way concepts such as music or art function in the context of human life: the ascription of music to humans or non-humans is a value-laden act rather than a factual issue regarding how to represent an entity. In order to see how humans and animals share a life in common, it is necessary to come to the reflective realization that how human beings understand themselves can impact on their perception and experience of human and non-human animals.

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