06 May Readiness for Delivering Digital Health at Scale

Background:Digital health has the potential to support care delivery for chronic illness. Despite positive evidence from localized implementations, new technologies have proven slow to become accepted, integrated, and routinized at scale.

Objective:The aim of our study was to examine barriers and facilitators to implementation of digital health at scale through the evaluation of a £37m national digital health program: ‟Delivering Assisted Living Lifestyles at Scale” (dallas) from 2012-2015.

Lennon, M. R., Bouamrane, M. M., Devlin, A. M., O’connor, S., O’donnell, C., Chetty, U., … & Mair, F. S. (2017). Readiness for delivering digital health at scale: lessons from a longitudinal qualitative evaluation of a national digital health innovation program in the United Kingdom. Journal of medical Internet research, 19(2), e42.