Digital Health

Diane Levin-Zamir, Laurence Lloyd Parial

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Abstract

Definitions: Digital health is a broad term and includes the use of digital, mobile, and wireless technologies to support the achievement of health objectives. In general, digital health describes the general use of information and communications technologies (ICT) for health and usually includes both electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth) (World Health Organization 2016). In particular, mHealth involves the use of mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless devices, for medical and public health practice (WHO Global Observatory for eHealth 2011) (see “Telehealth” and “Telemedicine”).
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging
EditorsDanan Gu, Matthew E. Dupre
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media
Pages1439-1446
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783030220099, 978-3-030-22009-9
ISBN (Print)9783030220082, 978-3-030-22008-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2021

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Social Sciences
  • General Psychology
  • General Medicine

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