Digital health
Digital health is the convergence of digital and genomic technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and make medicine more personalized and precise.[1]
Elements
As an outgrowth of the Digital Revolution characterized by "the mass production and widespread use of digital logic circuits, and its derived technologies, including the computer, digital cellular phone, and the Internet", key elements of digital health include wireless devices, hardware sensors and software sensing technologies, microprocessors and integrated circuits, the Internet, social networking, mobile/cellular networks and body area networks, health information technology, genomics, and personal genetic information.[1][2][3]
The underlying concepts and technologies of digital health include:[1][3]
- mHealth (mobile health)
- wireless health
- Health 2.0
- eHealth
- e-Patient
- healthcare information technology (Health IT)
- big data
- cloud computing
- quantified self
- wearable computing
- gamification
- telehealth
- telemedicine
- precision medicine
- personalized medicine
- connected health
- medical device data systems
- medical device interoperability
- software as a medical device
- general wellness
- cybersecurity
- digital patient
- digital clinic
- medical imaging
Implementation
National digital programs exist to support healthcare, such as the Canada Health Infoway built on core systems of patient and provider registries, clinical and diagnostic imaging systems, clinical reports and immunizations.[4] By 2014, 75% of Canadian physicians were using electronic records.[5]
In Uganda and Mozambique, partnerships between patients with cell phones, local and regional governments, technologists, non-governmental organizations, academia, and industry have enabled mHealth solutions.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 Bhavnani, S. P.; Narula, J; Sengupta, P. P. (2016). "Mobile technology and the digitization of healthcare". European Heart Journal. 37 (18): 1428–38. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehv770. PMID 26873093.
- ↑ Topol, Eric J (2012). The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. Basic Books. ISBN 0465025501.
- 1 2 "Digital health". US Food and Drug Administration. 30 August 2016.
- ↑ "Digital health: progress in Canada". Canada Health Infoway. 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ↑ Collier, R (2015). "National Physician Survey: EMR use at 75%". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 187 (1): E17–8. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4957. PMC 4284187
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