Safe use of medicines is a major challenge. Information flow in health care is complex and often fragmented, largely due to lack of interoperability and limited information exchange between separate systems. Medication information is part of the picture and we observe that insufficient, unavailable or not used which introduces risks users may be unaware of, leading to potential for errors, adverse events, disability, and even death. The primary source of information about medicines intended for patients is the paper leaflet provided with any dispensed medicinal product. The production and dissemination of new/revised information is laborious, time-consuming and costly, and content may not be up to date or well understood.
Gravitate-Health is a public-private partnership. As an integrated digital health information we seek to mitigate challenges to safe use of medicines as we equip and empower citizens with digital tools holding relevant health information from trusted sources, starting with the electronic product information (ePI). Our overall aim is that all users are confident, active, and responsive in their health journey, encouraging safe use of medicines for better health outcomes and quality of life. W develop the Gravitate Lens (G-lens®) as a route to access actionable, understandable, relevant, reliable and evidence-based health information that meets user’s needs, health context, and literacy level. The solution use of IPS (International Patient Summary) definitions to offer access to trusted Health Information, including regulator-approved medicinal product information. We seek to demonstrate that improved availability, use and understanding of health information translates to higher levels of adherence to treatment, safer use of medication (Pharmacovigilance), better health outcomes and quality of life.
Gravitate-Health acts as a catalyst bringing different, ongoing digital development initiatives together to provide usable, digital services needed by the most important, but least supported actors in health care - the person as patient, informal care giver or family member – with personally relevant health information, at their discretion and convenience. The ongoing digital transformation in the wider environment increases focus on exchange and use health data for multiple purposes. We demonstrate digital tools that support access to and understanding of personally relevant ePI content, essential for trust in digital health, and meaningful engagement with digitally provided information in an interoperable digital health ecosystem.
