[LINK] Digital Health

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 18/01/2017 1:47 PM, David Boxall wrote:
> Some interesting side-effects. ;)
> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-exactly-digital-health-tim-blake>
>
Gee that's an informative article - Not.

Here's his definition of Digital Health

"Digital Health is a disruptive and transformational approach to the
delivery of healthcare, with a focus on engaging and empowering
patients, activating caregiver networks and understanding that patients
are increasingly behaving as consumers of healthcare. Digital Health
provides us with a toolbox of technologies and techniques that support
the development of new, innovative patient and caregiver-centred models
of care, driving improved engagement, accessibility, quality, safety,
efficiency and sustainability into all corners of the health system."


Extracting deep meaning, this can be translated as:

"Digital Health is a new approach to the delivery of healthcare. Digital
Health provides us with a toolbox of technologies and techniques."

That's not much of a definition, in my book.

In many respects it's like the predictions made by many technologists in
the late 1990s for the Internet. All about freedom, a new democracy,
power to the people, ready access to the world's information etc etc.
That's not the internet I see today.

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brd

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