Wikipedia says:

Digital health, which includes digital care programs, 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. The discipline involves the use of information and communication technologies to help address the health problems and challenges faced by people under treatment .These technologies include both hardware and software solutions and services, including telemedicine, wearable devices, augmented reality, and virtual reality.

I don't think Digital Health is a fad, it's really here to help leverage all the data in the system of records marrying with the emerging technology stacks - AI, Cloud, Security, Data Science, Mobility amongst others. That means everyone should care as Digital Health as it can have huge impact on quality of health systems that means better health outcomes.

Read - CIOs and CTOs look to cloud for infrastructure modernization

Another great example:

Read - New AI model can predict length of COVID-19 hospitalization

On another note - Taliun launched Pledge - a MIPS reporting solution and also helping wide variety of healthcare enterprises leverage data, if you care to learn more, drop me a note and we can chat more.

Health Viva is just getting started and we are looking to share more interesting content with the healthcare & Life Science community, do you care for a podcast? If yes, we'd love to see if you can be a good candidate to come on the show where we'd interview folks from the healthcare & Life Science community and cover digital tech, data interoperability, population health.

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