What is Digital Health?
As per us at Plus91, Digital Health is defined as “using digital technologies to perform, improve or provision healthcare”. Any way by which technology is used to help improve a persons’ health and wellness encompasses Digital Health.
But you ask 100 digital health entrepreneurs or doctors, what is digital health, odds are you’ll get 100 different answers. It’s an imprecise terminology
As per HIMSS , Digital Health is defined as –
Digital health connects and empowers people and populations to manage health and wellness, augmented by accessible and supportive provider teams working within flexible, integrated, interoperable, and digitally-enabled care environments that strategically leverage digital tools, technologies and services to transform care delivery.
As per Wikipedia, Digital Health is defined as –
Digital health, which includes digital care programs, is the convergence of digital technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery to make medicine more personalized and precise.[1][2][3] The discipline uses information and communication technologies to facilitate understanding of health problems and challenges faced by people receiving medical treatment.[3]
The broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized medicine.
From mobile medical apps and software that support the clinical decisions doctors make every day to artificial intelligence and machine learning, digital technology has been driving a revolution in health care. Digital health tools have the vast potential to improve our ability to accurately diagnose and treat disease and to enhance the delivery of health care for the individual.
Digital health technologies use computing platforms, connectivity, software, and sensors for health care and related uses. These technologies span a wide range of uses, from applications in general wellness to applications as a medical device. They include technologies intended for use as a medical product, in a medical product, as companion diagnostics, or as an adjunct to other medical products (devices, drugs, and biologics). They may also be used to develop or study medical products.