DIGITAL HEALTH

Digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and make medicine more personalized and precise.

Why is digital health important?

The industry’s aims are diverse and complicated: preventing disease, helping patients monitor and manage chronic conditions, lowering the cost of healthcare provision, and making medicine more tailored to individual needs.

What is the future of healthcare technology?

The future of healthcare includes technology that seamlessly combines data on a patient’s medical history, real-time health, insurance coverage, and financial information all to support provider decision-making, improve patient health, and reduce costs. This will begin by expanding access to patient health information.

What is digital responsibility?

The definition of digital rights and responsibilities is having the right and freedom to use all types of digital technology while using the technology in an acceptable and appropriate manner. As a user of digital technology, you also have the right to privacy and the freedom of personal expression.

What are the benefits of digital health?

Digital Health Records ( DHR s) are the first step to transformed health care. The benefits of digital health records include: Better health care by improving all aspects of patient care, including safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, communication, education, timeliness, efficiency, and equity.

10 Benefits of Digital Health

• Enables more informed decision making and enhanced quality of care.
• Saves lives through remote consultations, whether urgent or diagnostic.
• Creates more efficient, convenient and potentially more cost effective delivery of care.
• Facilitates earlier – and more accurate – diagnoses.
• Provides greater, and faster, access to a patient’s medical history, reducing the risk of negative drug interactions or poor response to a course of treatment.
• Improves administrative efficiency and coordination.
• Allows rural residents to receive expert diagnosis and treatment from distant medical centers.
• Increases timeliness of treatment and decreases transfer rates while reducing medical costs through video technology.
• Supports real-time treatment by first responders through the use of wireless devices.
• Enhances senior wellness and preventative care through telemedicine and remote in-home monitoring.