Surveillance Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Surg Infect (Larchmt). 2019 Oct;20(7):581-583. doi: 10.1089/sur.2019.147. Epub 2019 Jul 25.
The history of large-scale technological advances, such as the digital revolution in our era, suggests that core technologies yield wide benefits by serving as a method of invention, spawning new tools and techniques that surpass the performance of their predecessors. Digital platforms provide a method of invention in the health sector by enabling innovations in data collection, use, and sharing. Although wide adoption of computerized information technology in healthcare has produced mixed results, the advent of mobile health (mHealth) creates new opportunities for device-mediated advances in surgical and public health practice. Mobile solutions for collecting, using, and sharing patient-generated health data after surgery can yield important benefits for post-operative monitoring, whether the data are used to evaluate and manage individual patients or track infections and other outcomes in patient populations.
大规模技术进步的历史，如我们这个时代的数字革命，表明核心技术通过作为发明的一种方法产生广泛的效益，产生新的工具和技术，超越了其前身的性能。数字平台通过促进数据收集、使用和共享方面的创新，为医疗保健领域提供了一种发明方法。尽管在医疗保健中广泛采用计算机化信息技术的效果喜忧参半，但移动医疗（mHealth）的出现为手术和公共卫生实践中的设备介导的进步创造了新的机会。用于收集、使用和共享手术后患者生成的健康数据的移动解决方案可为术后监测带来重要益处，无论是用于评估和管理个别患者还是跟踪患者人群中的感染和其他结果。
