Obarcanin Emina, Aslani Parisa, Ho Andy H Y, Bandiera Carole, Baysari Melissa, Bojic Iva, Bamgboje-Ayodele Adeola, Ong Qi Chwen, Spallek Heiko, Clarke Ronald J, Läer Stephanie
Institute for Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacotherapy, Henrich-Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany.
Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Singapore.
Explor Res Clin Soc Pharm. 2024 Jun 22;15:100469. doi: 10.1016/j.rcsop.2024.100469. eCollection 2024 Sep.
Digital healthcare has rapidly evolved during and in the post-COVID pandemic era, expanding the roles and responsibilities of community pharmacists. Services like telepharmacy, e-prescriptions, remote medication therapy management, and digital monitoring of chronic conditions, have evolved into everyday routine pharmacy practices. Pharmacists are at the forefront and the most accessible healthcare professionals for patients and are increasingly pivotal in providing comprehensive patient care, including digital patient care services. To ensure that future generations of pharmacists are digitally competent, it is crucial that digital health education is provided to pharmacy students. Furthermore, fostering high-quality multidisciplinary research, particularly in collaboration with medicine and other health disciplines, is essential for advancing the digital health skills of the future pharmacy workforce. Despite the growing use of digital health technologies, there are significant between-country differences in digital health education, the clinical settings in which digital health technologies are used, and their implementation in day-to-day practice. This commentary summarizes key insights from the International Digital Health Workshop held at the University of Sydney in November 2023. To help ensure pharmacists are included as participants in future digital health research, recent advances in digital health education and interprofessional research projects across three universities from far-off world regions were presented. Participants discussed a possible collaborative, interprofessional, and international research project on chronic disease prevention using digital health technologies. The need for interdisciplinary digital health curricula was highlighted in the workshop discussions, specifically tailored to address the knowledge requirements of pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
数字医疗在新冠疫情期间及之后迅速发展，扩大了社区药剂师的角色和职责。远程药学、电子处方、远程药物治疗管理以及慢性病数字监测等服务已演变为日常的药房实践。药剂师处于前沿位置，是患者最容易接触到的医疗保健专业人员，在提供全面的患者护理（包括数字患者护理服务）方面日益关键。为确保未来一代药剂师具备数字能力，向药学专业学生提供数字健康教育至关重要。此外，促进高质量的多学科研究，特别是与医学和其他健康学科合作，对于提升未来药学劳动力的数字健康技能至关重要。尽管数字健康技术的使用日益增加，但在数字健康教育、使用数字健康技术的临床环境以及其在日常实践中的实施方面，国家之间存在显著差异。本评论总结了2023年11月在悉尼大学举行的国际数字健康研讨会的关键见解。为帮助确保药剂师作为参与者纳入未来的数字健康研究，介绍了来自遥远世界地区三所大学在数字健康教育和跨专业研究项目方面的最新进展。与会者讨论了一个关于使用数字健康技术预防慢性病的可能的合作、跨专业和国际研究项目。研讨会讨论中强调了跨学科数字健康课程的必要性，特别是为满足药剂师和其他医疗保健专业人员的知识要求而量身定制的课程。
