title: Health innovations in patient decision support: Bridging the gaps and challenges.
abstract: Patient decision aids (PDAs) help to support patients in making an informed and value-based decision. Despite advancement in decision support technologies over the past 30 years, most PDAs are still inaccessible and few address individual needs. Health innovation may provide a solution to bridge these gaps. Information and computer technology provide a platform to incorporate individual profiles and needs into PDAs, making the decision support more personalised. Health innovation may enhance accessibility by using mobile, tablet and Internet technologies; make risk communication more interactive; and identify patient values more effectively. In addition, using databases to capture patient data and the usage of PDAs can help: developers to improve PDAs' design; clinicians to facilitate the decisionmaking process more effectively; and policy makers to make shared decision making more feasible and cost-effective. Health innovation may hold the key to advancing PDAs by creating a more personalised and effective decision support tool for patients making healthcare decisions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Primary Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Chirk Jenn
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Ng
authors.forename: Yew Kong
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Ping Yein
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Khatijah Lim
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Abdullah
keywords: Patient decision aids; health innovation; shared decision making