{"id":6402,"date":"2022-03-16T12:56:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2022-03-25T08:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T08:44:54","slug":"digital-health-is-bridging-the-patient-healthcare-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/future-of-healthcare\/digital-health-is-bridging-the-patient-healthcare-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital health is bridging the patient-healthcare gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-6404\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210848\/Thomas-Coleman-1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210848\/Thomas-Coleman-1.png 400w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210848\/Thomas-Coleman-1-125x125.png 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Tom Coleman<\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">CEO &amp; Co-Founder, Zendra Health<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Offering patients all the healthcare information they need in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one easy-to-access place<\/a> can help them better manage their own care and recover quicker.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital technology can have massive benefits in bridging the gap between patients and healthcare professionals to improve health outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can range from helping patients to become more engaged in their healthcare, better adhering to medication and rehabilitation regimes through to care teams having better visibility of people they may not be able to physically visit on a regular basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-patient-centric-care\"><strong>Patient-centric care<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital health expert and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zendra Health<\/a> CEO Tom Coleman explains that digital health can make healthcare more accessible and support patients with more than one condition, in their own home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is about delivering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personalised care<\/a> to their needs,\u201d he says, \u201cand moving care away from the acute setting into more community-based setting and at home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>For patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div id=\"healt-592898050\"><div class=\"healt-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><div id=\"healt-3017941510\" style=\"margin-top: 20px;margin-bottom: 20px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"22\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210838\/22-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210838\/22-1.jpg 1563w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210838\/22-1-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210838\/22-1-1536x512.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1563px) 100vw, 1563px\" width=\"750\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Navigating pathways<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea for the company emerged from seeing their mother, who had rheumatoid arthritis, struggle with navigating her way through the care pathway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe would have reminders on her phone to take her meds, educational leaflets scattered under her footrest and a plastic bag for all of her appointment letters,\u201d says Coleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By putting all the patient information \u2013 which can often be fragmented &#8211; in one place digitally and available on laptop, PC, tablet or smartphone and tailored to that cohort, it enables patients to have what they need close to hand and cuts down the time healthcare professionals spend doing admin tasks with patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><meta charset=\"utf-8\"><p>For patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Healthcare visibility<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zendra Health&#8217;s solution<\/a> can also give healthcare staff visibility of how their patient is doing, highlight whether they need additional care such as a social worker visit, or cut down on routine face-to-face visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor patients, it empowers them and they can feel comfortable that a care team can see how they are doing in between clinic visits,\u201d Coleman adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients, caregivers and care teams can rapidly co-create a digital health solution using Zendra&#8217;s Health&#8217;s technology in just one day. With the tremendous support of HSE Digital Transformation team and Sligo Living Lab, Zendra Health is helping healthcare services in the US, UK and Ireland transform from a diseased-centred model to a truly patient-centric and integrated model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"color:#32373c;background-color:#007fbe\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-notice ab-font-size-16 ab-block-notice\" data-id=\"5e5432\"><div class=\"ab-notice-text\" style=\"border-color:#007fbe\"><p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, sans-serif;\">Zendra Health is a Dublin-based medical technology company that works with healthcare services to improve the patient experience and optimise care pathways through its turnkey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digital health platform<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-button ab-block-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zendrahealth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"ab-button ab-button-shape-rounded ab-button-size-medium fb-pixel\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#007fbe\">Click here to find out more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering patients all the healthcare information they need in one easy-to-access place can help them better manage their own care and recover quicker. Digital technology can have massive benefits in bridging the gap between patients and healthcare professionals to improve health outcomes. This can range from helping patients to become more engaged in their healthcare, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/future-of-healthcare\/digital-health-is-bridging-the-patient-healthcare-gap\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":6625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5714],"tags":[5715],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-future-of-healthcare","tag-future-of-healthcare-q1-2022"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210816\/healthcare_personalised-header-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2022\/03\/07210816\/healthcare_personalised-header-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"henryphillips","author_link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/author\/henryphillips\/"},"vicky_index_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6485,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions\/6485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}