Systematic review protocol of digital divides in the medical sciences area
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https://doi.org/10.56294/saludcyt2024750Keywords:
Digital Divide, Technological Disparity, Electronic Medical Records, Mobile Health, TelemedicineAbstract
Introduction: the development of digital technologies in the area of medical sciences has progressively advanced in recent years, initially conceptualized as electronic health, whose characteristics were fundamentally informative, its main tool being the internet and extending to other services such as mobile health and telehealth of great importance for medicine. Objective: the present systematic review aims to determine the main digital technologies in the health area, developed during the years 2020 to 2022 and their applicability in the different fields of medicine.
Method: the methodology used was based on the review of original research articles on four categories of study: electronic medical records, telemedicine, mobile health and data analysis, obtained from the Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest and EBSCO databases. Thirty articles were selected, respecting the screening and eligibility criteria considered in the PRISMA protocol. Results: the results of the review showed the remarkable development in the application of electronic medical records and telemedicine in the different areas of health, constituting between them 60 % of the publications; mobile applications and data analysis were the ones with the lowest results, but with the greatest technological innovation.
Conclusion: we conclude the importance of the applicability of new technologies developed during the health emergency in different health areas
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