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The Value Digital Health Brings To The Healthcare Ecosystem

by Fred Pennic 10/11/2013 Leave a Comment

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Building off the first video that defined the essentials elements of digital health, Paul Sonnier, curator of 19,000+ member Digital Health group on LinkedIn has followed up with a new video that illustrates the profound value that digital health brings to the healthcare ecosystem.

What is Digital Health? 

Digital health is the convergence of the digital and genetics revolutions with health and healthcare. As we are seeing and experiencing, digital health is empowering us to better track, manage, and improve our own and our family’s health. It’s also helping to reduce inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and make medicine more personalized and precise.

The essential elements of the digital health revolution include wireless devices, hardware sensors and software sensing technologies, microprocessors and integrated circuits, the Internet, social networking, mobile and body area networks, health information technology, genomics, and personal genetic information.

The lexicon of Digital Health is extensive and includes all or elements of mHealth (aka Mobile Health), Wireless Health, Health 2.0, eHealth, Health IT, Big Data, Health Data, Cloud Computing, e-Patients, Quantified Self and Self-tracking, Wearable Computing, Gamification, Telehealth & Telemedicine, Precision and Personalized Medicine, plus Connected Health.

For more information visit Story of Digital Health

Be sure to join the Digital Health group on LinkedIn

Follow Paul Sonnier at @Paul_Sonnier on Twitter

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