Explaining Digital Health: Why It Matters and What You Should Know
Priyanka Gaur
15th World Healthcare, Hospital Management, Nursing, and Patient Safety Conference, May 14-16, 2025 in person in San Francisco, United States
Digital health: What is it?
The broad definition of digital health encompasses fields like wearable technology, telehealth and telemedicine, personalised medicine, and mobile health (mHealth).
Digital technology has been driving a revolution in health care, from artificial intelligence and machine learning to mobile medical apps and software that assist the clinical decisions clinicians make every day. The use of digital health tools has the potential to significantly improve individual patient care by enhancing the accurate diagnosis and treatment of disease.
For healthcare and associated purposes, digital health technologies use computing platforms, networking, software, and sensors. These technologies have a wide range of applications, including those for medical devices and applications for general wellbeing. They consist of innovations created to be used as medical products, in medical products, as auxiliary diagnostics, or as companions to other medical products (devices, drugs, and biologics). They could also be used to research or develop medicinal items.
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What Advantages Do Digital Health Technology Offer?
Through data access, digital tools are giving healthcare professionals a more comprehensive picture of patient health while also allowing patients greater control over their own health. Real opportunities to increase productivity and improve medical outcomes are presented by digital health.
These technologies offer new opportunities for assisting prevention, early identification of life-threatening diseases, and management of chronic ailments outside of traditional health care settings. They can also enable consumers to make better-informed decisions about their own health. Digital health technologies are being used by providers and other stakeholders to:
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Digital health technology can help patients and customers better manage and keep track of their actions linked to their health and wellness.
Smart phones, social networks, and internet applications are changing the way we communicate, but they are also enabling us to monitor our health and wellbeing in novel ways and expanding our access to information. In order to improve health care and health outcomes, these developments are bringing together people, information, technology, and connection.
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Emphasis on Digital Health by the FDA.
These days, a lot of medical equipment can link to and communicate with other equipment or systems. Digital features are being added to devices that have already received FDA approval, authorization, or clearance. These features are being investigated in new gadget kinds.
Patients, healthcare professionals , researchers, traditional medical device sector companies, and companies that are new to the FDA regulatory standards, including mobile application developers, are just a few of the stakeholders involved in digital health activities.
What makes digital health crucial?
Deloitte Insights claims that the promise of more consumer-focused, preventive care depends on more than simply technologies and solutions; it also emphasises the importance of "radically interoperable data, artificial intelligence (AI), and open, secure platforms."
AI, big data, robots, and machine learning developments continue to significantly alter the digital healthcare industry. Additionally, changes in the environment of digital healthcare maintain advancements in ingestible sensors, robotic carers, and tools and apps for remote patient monitoring.
Apparently from Deloitte: "Major scientific advances made possible by AI will hasten the development of new treatments and disease-fighting vaccinations. Digital treatments powered by AI and individualised advice will enable users to stop health problems before they start. Diagnoses and treatment options will be influenced by AI-generated insights, resulting in safer and more efficient therapies. Moreover, intelligent manufacturing and supply chain solutions will guarantee that the appropriate interventions and therapies are given at the precise time the patient requires them."
Advantages of digital health.
With assisting people in monitoring and managing chronic illnesses, digital health has the potential to prevent disease and save healthcare expenditures. Also, it can modify medications for certain patients.
The development of digital health can be advantageous to healthcare practitioners as well. Digital tools provide individuals more control over their health and greatly increased access to health data, giving healthcare practitioners a comprehensive perspective of patient health. As a result, productivity is raised and patient outcomes are enhanced.
According to the website of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): "Digital technology has been driving a revolution in health care, from artificial intelligence and machine learning to mobile medical apps and software that assist the clinical decisions clinicians make every day. The use of digital health tools has the potential to significantly improve individual patient care by enhancing the correct diagnosis and treatment of disease."
Additionally, new ways for patients to monitor their health and have greater access to information are made possible by technologies like cellphones, social networks, and internet applications. In order to improve health care and health outcomes, people, information, technology, and connectivity are converging, according to the FDA.
The FDA claims that digital health technologies assist physicians in lowering inefficiencies, enhancing access, lowering costs, raising quality, and personalising medicine for patients. Digital health technologies also make it possible for patients and consumers to more effectively monitor and track activities connected to their health and wellness.
While medical personnel can expedite their operations with AI-powered systems, innovations like virtual reality (VR) tools, wearable medical devices, telehealth, and 5G assist patients receive better treatment.
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