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Table 3

Key takeaways: digital health adoption, equity, and safe care

Implication/Intervention	Impact on equity	Impact on adoption	Impact on safe care
Digital literacy programs	Reduces exclusion by enabling marginalized users to navigate tools	Increases sustained engagement with digital health	Enhances correct use of tools, reduces errors, improves patient outcomes
Participatory/co-design approaches	Ensures tools reflect needs of diverse populations	Improves usability and trust, leading to higher uptake	Minimizes misuse, supports safety-aligned design, prevents miscommunication
Culturally and linguistically adapted tools	Expands access for non-dominant language speakers	Increases engagement and comprehension	Reduces risk of errors caused by misunderstanding or interface misalignment
Robust data governance and transparency	Protects vulnerable populations from privacy violations	Builds trust, facilitating sustained adoption	Ensures secure, accurate, and reliable health data for safe care
Infrastructure and system-level alignment	Ensures consistent access across socio-economic strata	Supports reliable and uninterrupted service use	Provides stable platform for safe delivery of digital interventions
Workforce capacity and digital competency	Supports equitable guidance for patients with lower digital skills	Enhances provider confidence and technology uptake	Clinicians can mediate safe use, preventing clinical errors
Practical support mechanisms (helplines, navigators)	Assists those with limited digital experience	Reduces dropout, improves adoption continuity	Provides real-time error prevention, supports safe navigation of tools
Ongoing monitoring and evaluation	Identifies equity gaps in real time	Informs iterative improvement, sustaining adoption	Detects safety risks early, enabling corrective actions before harm occurs
Integration into national digital health policies	Embeds equity principles in systemic planning	Facilitates coordinated and sustained adoption	Ensures governance and regulatory oversight for safe care delivery

Implication/Intervention	Impact on equity	Impact on adoption	Impact on safe care
Digital literacy programs	Reduces exclusion by enabling marginalized users to navigate tools	Increases sustained engagement with digital health	Enhances correct use of tools, reduces errors, improves patient outcomes
Participatory/co-design approaches	Ensures tools reflect needs of diverse populations	Improves usability and trust, leading to higher uptake	Minimizes misuse, supports safety-aligned design, prevents miscommunication
Culturally and linguistically adapted tools	Expands access for non-dominant language speakers	Increases engagement and comprehension	Reduces risk of errors caused by misunderstanding or interface misalignment
Robust data governance and transparency	Protects vulnerable populations from privacy violations	Builds trust, facilitating sustained adoption	Ensures secure, accurate, and reliable health data for safe care
Infrastructure and system-level alignment	Ensures consistent access across socio-economic strata	Supports reliable and uninterrupted service use	Provides stable platform for safe delivery of digital interventions
Workforce capacity and digital competency	Supports equitable guidance for patients with lower digital skills	Enhances provider confidence and technology uptake	Clinicians can mediate safe use, preventing clinical errors
Practical support mechanisms (helplines, navigators)	Assists those with limited digital experience	Reduces dropout, improves adoption continuity	Provides real-time error prevention, supports safe navigation of tools
Ongoing monitoring and evaluation	Identifies equity gaps in real time	Informs iterative improvement, sustaining adoption	Detects safety risks early, enabling corrective actions before harm occurs
Integration into national digital health policies	Embeds equity principles in systemic planning	Facilitates coordinated and sustained adoption	Ensures governance and regulatory oversight for safe care delivery