Infographic: Evidence from CIHR's eHealth Innovations Initiative Impact Assessment
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eHealth Impacts
Most common types of eHealth interventions:
- 38% - Virtual care/telemedicine
- 38% - Home health monitoring applications
- 30% - Patient portals
92% of respondents reported that the eHealth Initiative has been essential for their research workand advancements in digital health over the last few years.
50% of respondents reported that their interventions were being scaled or spread to other settings, contexts and/or populations.
eHealth interventions were reported to...
Overall health impacts
- 51% - Improve health outcomes
- 47% - Improve population health
- 44% - Improve health equity
- 42% - Address determinants of health
Health system impacts
- 67% - Improve patient experience
- 50% - Improve cost-effectiveness
- 47% - Improve equitable access to care
- 46% - Improve provider experience
- 45% - Changes in health system practices
- 28% - Improve health system performance
- 19% - Changes in health policy
Collective Canadian investment in eHealth Initiative
- Total CIHR investment: $17.8M
- Total grants awarded: 59
- Investment in digital health solutions for older adults: $11M
- Grants focused on digital health solutions for older adults: 20
- Investment from external partners: $29M (Partners are defined here as any sponsor providing in-kind and/or financial support, at the competition or applicant-level)
- CIHR and external partners: 11
Barriers
- Lack of time in healthcare to support the intervention
- High personnel turnover rates
- Delays in testing due to COVID-19
Enablers
- Increased market demand for digital health solutions (due to COVID-19)
- Co-design & iterative design of eHealth solution with partners
- Credibility of eHIPP program
Partnerships
eHealth Initiative projects helped to sustain existing partnerships and to form new partnerships.
- 92% partnerships with healthcare providers
- 83% people with lived or living experience
- 44% partnerships with policy/decision makers
Future research
On a scale of 0 to 100, respondents rated the need for CIHR's continuous investment in digital health as... 92.
Recommendations included:
- A continued focus on knowledge creation (development of new eHealth interventions) and knowledge implementation, with a stronger focus on implementation science;
- Support digital health research for priority populations, to ensure appropriate and equitable access to the health system and services and to improve clinical care data systems;
- Encourage increased opportunities for networking and collaboration between researchers, industry and policy makers and strengthen innovation efforts for managing equitable development of digital health.
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