What is Digital Health Anyways?
Digital technologies are disrupting healthcare workflows by improving outcomes and preventing disease. Digital health is where technological innovations transform the health of individuals through digital mechanisms.
Digital health tools can encompass hardware such as wearables, monitoring devices or sensors; other digital tools are software technologies such as email, phone apps, websites, and electronic systems. A digital technology that has been quickly adopted during this pandemic is telemedicine. Telemedicine enables patient to access care remotely through online consults and education. It allows healthcare providers to assess, monitor, and deliver care through digital interventions such as medicine reminders.
By nature, digital health is a multidisciplinary field involving a diverse group of professionals working together with expertise in medicine, engineering, technology, business, management, public health, and economics. It is a fast-growing field fueled by technology disruption, research, analytics, artificial intelligence, social and global trends. Hence, digital health is a fast-paced, ever-changing arena with a promising future for improving the health and well-being of individuals and society.
Digital health can benefit organization in several ways:
Improve medical management and disease outcomes
Prevent onset of disease by enforcing a healthy lifestyle
Increase access to care by consumers
Increase outreach of health care delivery by providers
Prevent relapse, adverse events, and hospital readmission through remote monitoring
Reduce cost of care by reducing waste and optimizing healthcare workflows
Predict population health trends through machine learning
Safeguard health care information through access control
Maintain and organize patient records without taking up physical space
Collaborate and access healthcare information in real-time
Prevent medical errors
Speed up billing and reimbursements
And so much more…
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