SynthesisThe Lancet. Digital health2023
The global effect of digital health technologies on health workers' competencies and health workplace: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and lexical-based and sentence-based meta-analysis.
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72 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The Impact of Digitalization on European General Practice From the Perspective of General Practitioners: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- A conceptual framework and umbrella review of digital health technology interventions and health equity.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- AI in the Health Sector: Systematic Review of Key Skills for Future Health Professionals.JMIR medical education · 2025Pooled it
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- A life-course map of health risks associated with exposure to second-hand smoke.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Digital health and rural health workforce retention: mapping workforce retention pathways.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of a capacity-building training for knowledge and practices of tobacco control and oral cancer prevention: a pre-post study from rural northern India.BMC oral health · 2026Article
- AI Integration in Spanish Undergraduate Medical Education: National Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR medical education · 2026Article
- Influence of Digital Literacy on Digital Health Usage Intention Among Patients With Cancer and Healthcare Providers.Journal of Korean medical science · 2026Article
- PROTOCOL: Artificial Intelligence and Other Digital Tools Used by, and for Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to Improve Outcomes and Increase Effectiveness: An Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Healthcare professionals show high AI enthusiasm but limited knowledge: A cross-sectional study.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
- Wearable Devices and Data Sharing in the US.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Organizational Tensions in the Implementation of Modifiable Off-the-Shelf Technologies in a University Hospital: Qualitative Multimethod Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Understanding digital health technology implementation in rehabilitation and development of the Rehabilitation Technologies Implementation model.NPJ digital medicine · 2026Article
- Mobile Interventions for Reducing Sedentary Behavior and Promoting Physical Activity Among Office Workers: Bibliometric Study.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2026Review
- A culturally tailored virtual intervention for Alzheimer's family caregivers: Addressing practical challenges and future directions.Archives of gerontology and geriatrics plus · 2026Article
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Abstract
Systematic reviews have quantified the effectiveness, feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of digital health technologies (DHTs) used by health-care workers. We aimed to collate available evidence on technologies' effect on health-care workers' competencies and performance. We searched the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Embase, MEDLINE, Epistemonikos, and Scopus for reviews published from database inception to March 1, 2023. Studies assessing the effects of DHTs on the organisational, socioeconomic, clinical, and epidemiological levels within the workplace, and on health-care workers' performance parameters, were included. Data were extracted and clustered into 25 domains using vote counting based on the direction of effect. The relative frequency of occurrence (RFO) of each domain was estimated using R software. AMSTAR-2 tool was used to appraise the quality of reporting, and the Confidence in the Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research approach developed by Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation was used to analyse the certainty of evidence among included studies. The 12 794 screened reviews generated 132 eligible records for assessment. Top-ranked RFO identifiers showed associations of DHT with the enhancement of health-care workers' performance (10·9% [95% CI 5·3-22·5]), improvement of clinical practice and management (9·8% [3·9-24·2]), and improvement of care delivery and access to care (9·2% [4·1-20·9]). Our overview found that DHTs positively influence the daily practice of health-care workers in various medical specialties. However, poor reporting in crucial domains is widely prevalent in reviews of DHT, hindering our findings' generalisability and interpretation. Likewise, most of the included reviews reported substantially more data from high-income countries. Improving the reporting of future studies and focusing on low-income and middle-income countries might elucidate and answer current knowledge gaps.
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