Keywords: digital and hybrid GP care, primary process, risks, benefits
Introduction:
In this digital era, healthcare increasingly embraces all kinds of digital solutions. Technically almost anything is possible and digital solutions hold the promise of solving future challenges in healthcare due to increasing demand in an aging population and bureaucratic and medicolegal pressures concurrent with diminishing workforce capacity. These conditions, valid in most European countries, strongly incentivize rapid development and use of an array of digital solutions, often already fully implemented in practice before scientifically underpinned or assessed for safety or unintended effects. At the same time, choices for digital care solutions and actual implementation differ per European country because each specific context poses different needs and potential.
In the Netherlands a policy statement about digital care in family medicine has been developed by the Dutch College of GPs and published recently.
Aim(s):
In this workshop, we aim to explore the potential for an EQuiP Position Paper on Quality and Safety of digital GP care. For this, we share the Dutch policy statement on digital GP care to harvest critical reflections and experiences, among European colleagues, and to reflect on the chances and challenges of digital care solutions in general practice/family medicine.
Programme:
• 00:05min Plenary introduction of rationale, definitions, and the workshop program.
• 00:15 min Introduction Dutch college’s policy statement on digital GP care
• 00:15min Small group work, part 1: Critical appraisal and experiential discussion
• 00:05min Intermediate plenary feedback
• 00:15min Small group work, part 2: Mapping and discussing chances and challenges of the digital care solutions (ref. to EQuiP-survey 2023).
• 00:20min Plenary discussion.
• 00:05min Wrap up and formulating next steps.
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EQuiP is open to both Individual and Organizational Memberships. EQuiP offers a platform to improve the knowledge base and to improve closer collaboration between GPs / Family Doctors, researchers, educators, policy makers and organisations involved in quality and safety in family medicine and primary care.
