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Digital Technology in Healthcare:

Enhancing Education and Patient Care

Mateja Lorber Gregor Štiglic
University of Maribor, Slovenia University of Maribor, Slovenia,
mateja.lorber@um.si University of Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
Lucija Gosak gregor.stiglic@um.si
University of Maribor, Slovenia
luucija.gosak2@um.si Adrijana Svenšek
University of Maribor, Slovenia
adrijana.svensek1@um.si

The implementation of digital tools, systems, and technologies in healthcare
improves education, lowers the risk of errors, and enables the provision of
comprehensive, high-quality care to patients. Our study analyzed healthcare
students’ comprehension and viewpoints on the use of digital technologies in
their education and practice. We aim to investigate how healthcare students
are educated about digital technology’s potential applications during their
studies and in clinical practice. Healthcare students provided several practical
illustrations of digital technology employment, including e-health records, doc-
umentation access, diagnoses, electronic medical records, and mobile health.
These examples effectively demonstrate improved communication between
healthcare professionals, streamlined data analysis and management, and bet-
ter patient monitoring. Although digital technology brings significant benefits
to healthcare education, students remain mindful of the challenges it poses. We
assert that digital technology is essential for improving the quality of health-
care education and providing comprehensive, evidence-based patient care.
Keywords: digital technologies, education, healthcare, teaching effectively
© 5 Mateja Lorber, Lucija Gosak, Gregor Štiglic,
and Adrijana Svenšek
https://doi.org/1.6493/978-961-93-467-5.14

Introduction
In the age of the digital revolution, educational processes are changing rap-
idly. According to a UNESCO survey in yeare 3, 8% of schools worldwide
use digital technologies in their daily teaching (UNESCO, 3). New technol-
ogies available to all people that we have unconsciously aligned schooling
and learning, as children and adults spend more and more time learning on
their own and using the new technologies (Lattouf, ). Digital education

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