Fotis Theofanis
School of Health Sciences, University of Brighton, UK.
J Perioper Pract. 2017 Jun;27(6):126-127. doi: 10.1177/175045891702700601.
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 'the broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalised medicine, and is used by providers and other stakeholders in their efforts to reduce inefficiencies, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and make medicine more personalised for patients (FDA 2016). More recently, Paul Sonier, a digital health strategist and founder of the Linkedin digital health group with more than 40,000 members, defined digital health as 'the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society' (storyofdigitalhealth.com 2016).
根据美国食品药品监督管理局的说法，数字健康的广泛范畴包括移动健康（mHealth）、健康信息技术（IT）、可穿戴设备、远程医疗和远程医学以及个性化医疗等类别，医疗服务提供者和其他利益相关者利用这些技术来减少低效率、改善医疗服务可及性、降低成本、提高质量，并使医疗更具个性化（美国食品药品监督管理局，2016年）。最近，数字健康策略师、拥有4万多名成员的领英数字健康小组创始人保罗·索尼尔将数字健康定义为“数字革命和基因组革命与健康、医疗、生活及社会的融合”（数字健康故事网，2016年）。
