title: Digital technologies and chronic disease management.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Digital technologies will become a major part of our healthcare system, with particular impact in primary care. However, many healthcare professionals are not sufficiently informed of the digital technologies available today and how they and their patients can gain substantial benefit from adoption of these technologies.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To raise awareness of the potential benefits of using digital technologies for improving practice efficiencies and patient health outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implementing best practice care for patients with chronic and complex conditions is one of the greatest challenges facing general practice and other primary care providers. It has been suggested that digital technologies could assist by decreasing the administrative burden of care delivery, improving quality of care, increasing practice efficiencies and better supporting patient self-management. In this paper, we consider some areas in the management of chronic and long-term conditions where digital and mobile health solutions can make a difference today.
authors.affiliation: BSc, BE, PhD (London), DIC, Chief Executive Officer, Precedence Health Care, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Georgeff
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D066275:Health Information Exchange; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012648:Self Care