Fatehi Farhad, Samadbeik Mahnaz, Kazemi Azar
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Nov 23;275:67-71. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200696.
Digital technologies are transforming the health sector all over the world, however various aspects of this emerging field of science is yet to be properly understood. Ambiguity in the definition of digital health is a hurdle for research, policy, and practice in this field. With the aim of achieving a consensus in the definition of digital health, we undertook a quantitative analysis and term mapping of the published definitions of digital health. After inspecting 1527 records, we analyzed 95 unique definitions of digital health, from both scholar and general sources. The findings showed that digital health, as has been used in the literature, is more concerned about the provision of healthcare rather than the use of technology. Wellbeing of people, both at population and individual levels, have been more emphasized than the care of patients suffering from diseases. Also, the use of data and information for the care of patients was highlighted. A dominant concept in digital health appeared to be mobile health (mHealth), which is related to other concepts such as telehealth, eHealth, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.
数字技术正在改变全球卫生部门，然而，这一新兴科学领域的各个方面尚未得到充分理解。数字健康定义的模糊性是该领域研究、政策和实践的障碍。为了在数字健康的定义上达成共识，我们对已发表的数字健康定义进行了定量分析和术语映射。在检查了1527条记录后，我们分析了来自学者和一般来源的95个独特的数字健康定义。研究结果表明，文献中使用的数字健康更关注医疗保健的提供，而不是技术的使用。与疾病患者的护理相比，人群和个人层面的人们的福祉得到了更多强调。此外，还强调了使用数据和信息来护理患者。数字健康中的一个主导概念似乎是移动健康（mHealth），它与远程医疗、电子健康和医疗保健中的人工智能等其他概念相关。
