Health Sciences 4120A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Digital Health, Telehealth, Medical Device
28 Apr 2020
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Digital health includes mobile health, telehealth, wearable devices, and health information technologies. These technologies can help consumers make evidence-based decisions about their health and provides options for prevention, early diagnosis, and management of disease outside of the traditional clinical setting. Digital health tools can improve our ability of accurate diagnosis and disease treatment. Digital tools also provide a holistic view of the patient for physicians and allows patients to be more autonomous in their healthcare choices. The fda has developed a digital health program that aims to promote and protect public health through: Developing collaborations and improving outreach to digital health consumers. Creating and implementing regulatory policies for digital health technologies. Model medicine to be increasingly personalized for patients. Patients can utilize digital health technologies to manage and track their health better. The use of these technologies provide different ways to monitor health, thus providing more access to information.
