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Digital Health for Primary Care by Ana Luisa Neves (Hardback)
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9781041005650
Published:
29 Aug 2025
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
160 pages
Dimensions:
234mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
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This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of digital health technologies in primary care.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the role of digital health technologies in primary care. Discussing the transformative potential of digital health solutions and their impact on healthcare delivery within the primary care setting, the book offers offers insights, considers strategies, and shares practical guidance for all primary care providers interested in leveraging digital innovations to enhance patient outcomes and optimize care delivery.
About the Author: Ana Luisa Neves is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Digital Health and Director of the Global Digital Health Unit at Imperial College, where she leads a team of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, focusing on the use of digital technologies to deliver safer, more effective, and patient-centred care. She has more than 15 years of research experience, and >80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (>4,800 citations, h-index=31), using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Dr Neves is currently an elected member of the Executive Board of the European General Practice Research Network and Chair of the Working Party on eHealth of WONCA World.Prior to joining Imperial College, Dr Neves earned her medical degree from the University of Porto in Portugal, where she also completed her specialist training in General Practice in 2013. She has practiced as a General Practitioner in Portugal and the United Kingdom, and has volunteered in low-income countries, focusing on patient education programs related to women's health and infectious diseases in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and Mozambique. During her General Practice residency, she undertook academic and research placements at Institut National de la Santé et Recherche Médicale in Paris and at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Boston. In 2014, Dr. Neves moved to London to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Medicine at Imperial College London, which she completed in 2018. In 2018, she was awarded a scholarship from the European Association of General Practice (WONCA Europe). Beyond her roles at Imperial College, Dr. Neves currently serves as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Ariadne Labs, where she was named the Home Hospital International Fellow in 2024. She also holds a position as Associate Professor at the University of Porto. Liliana Laranjo (MD, MPH, PhD) is an Associate Professor at Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, where she holds a Sydney Horizon Fellowship. She has a background as a General Practitioner and is Deputy Chair of the World Organization of General Practitioners' (WONCA) eHealth Working Party, as well as Member of the founding International Advisory Board for The Lancet Primary Care. Dr Laranjo leads the Digital Health Stream at the Westmead Applied Research Centre, an Impact Centre of the University of Sydney, where she coordinates several clinical trials and leads multidisciplinary teams across different fields, from medicine and health to data science and engineering. Her research focuses on leveraging digital health to empower and support patients in their health journeys, with the aim of preventing chronic disease at scale in the community.Dr Laranjo has a Master of Public Health from Harvard University and a PhD in Medicine (Digital Health) from Lisbon Medical School, Portugal. During her PhD, she received a Junior Clinical Research Award from the Harvard Medical School-Portugal Program. She was a 2022 World Heart Federation Emerging Leader and has been awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leader Investigator Grant (2023-2027) and an Honorary Future Leader Fellowship from the National Heart Foundation (2023-2026) in Australia. Dr Laranjo's work has received global media attention and has been used to guide research, practice and policy worldwide. Her field-weighted citation index is 2, meaning her overall number of citations is double the world average in the field.
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