The focus in the healthcare industry has long been on medical treatment and technology, but forward-thinking organizations are starting to change this. Digital Health Center (DHC) proactively take innovation into their own hands to enhance the delivery and accessibility of healthcare. They promote the shift towards a more transparent society by making healthcare more available digitally and providing their customers with ease of use, convenience and user-friendliness.
Innovation Through Cooperation
Healthcare institutions often have difficulty keeping up with the pace of developments in the digital market, while innovative startups struggle to enter the complex healthcare market.
DHC created the Digital Health Tool, a platform where healthcare institutions, knowledge institutions and clients work together on developing innovative eHealth products, bridging the gap between those parties. An obvious example of an eHealth product would be the iOS Health app. The Digital Health Tool makes it possible to access, share and give feedback on eHealth solutions, which paves the way for health institutions to start working on their own innovative products, without any restrictions.
Making Innovation Available for Everyone
The Digital Health Tool brings together eHealth applications and products in a digital library so they are easily accessible to users. The eHealth products include educational material ranging from helping people learn how to cook to helping people improve their mental health. The Tool gathers feedback to enable continuous improvement and to further optimize innovation in healthcare.
Digital Health Center has also developed a Cash Book application to help clients manage their finances. Their mission is to make digital resources available to all mentally disabled people and make innovation accessible to everyone.
Ensuring the Value of the Digital Health Tool
While there is a wide range of e-Health technology offered today, the resources are often expensive and the value to the user is not immediately known. The Digital Health Tool offers clients and healthcare professionals the opportunity to borrow devices for a pre-arranged time, to see if the device suits them. After trying the device, users can decide whether to purchase it or not. This ensures that the device is practical and provides value to the health practice. Users can also give feedback on the e-Health solution.
Sounds Good, But How Does it Work?
In the Digital Health Tool’s search function, you can enter your keywords, like fitness or mental health, or search by predetermined category. The Tool then shows a list of relevant applications and products; A fitbit, for example. Once you have found one that you are interested in, the Tool then provides (price)information, instructions, ratings, reviews and related products/applications.
A Perfect Match
Just like DHC, other professionals in healthcare organizations often have great ideas about innovation. Betty Blocks empowers them, the Citizen Developers, to look for the right solutions themselves without being constrained by programming or technology. Add accessibility and human-centricity to the mix and it makes a perfect fit for Digital Health Center and the healthcare industry as a whole. Digital Health Center built their Digital Health Tool and Cash Book application with the Betty Blocks platform. This would have taken months with traditional methods, but they pulled it off in a matter of weeks. With Betty Blocks, organizations can rapidly set up a project and develop from there, while carrying no risk.
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