PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Mrudula Utukuri
AU  - Felecia D'souza
AU  - Alexander Deighton
AU  - Elizabeth PV Le
AU  - Benedict Osei-Boadu
AU  - Nishita Gadi
AU  - Ariana Axiaq
AU  - Yuri YM Aung
AU  - Bridget Agboola
AU  - Chandini P Chand
AU  - Connor Dibblin
AU  - Chandni R Patel
AU  - Mohsin Abedi
AU  - Johnathan Hirniak
AU  - Ngan H Ta
AU  - James HF Rudd
AU  - Rajiv Sethi
TI  - Digital health: a neglected part of health curricula?
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2021-0102
DP  - 2022 Mar 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 18--20
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/1/18.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/1/18.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2022 Mar 01; 9
AB  - With growing government investment and a thriving consumer market, digital technologies are rapidly transforming our means of healthcare delivery. These innovations offer increased diagnostic accuracy, greater accessibility and reduced costs compared with conventional equivalents. Despite these benefits, implementing digital health poses challenges. Recent surveys of healthcare professionals (HCPs) have revealed marked inequities in digital literacy across the healthcare service, hampering the use of these new technologies in clinical practice. Furthermore, a lack of appropriate training in the associated ethical considerations risks HCPs running into difficulty when it comes to patient rights. In light of this, and with a clear need for dedicated digital health education, we argue that our focus should turn to the foundation setting of any healthcare profession: the undergraduate curriculum.