Geifman Nophar, Armes Jo, Whetton Anthony D
School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.
School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.
Front Digit Health. 2023 Apr 17;5:1092008. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1092008. eCollection 2023.
The use of technologies that provide objective, digital data to clinicians, carers, and service users to improve care and outcomes comes under the unifying term Digital Health. This field, which includes the use of high-tech health devices, telemedicine and health analytics has, in recent years, seen significant growth in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It is clearly acknowledged by multiple stakeholders that digital health innovations are necessary for the future of improved and more economic healthcare service delivery. Here we consider digital health-related research and applications by using an informatics tool to objectively survey the field. We have used a quantitative text-mining technique, applied to published works in the field of digital health, to capture and analyse key approaches taken and the diseases areas where these have been applied. Key areas of research and application are shown to be cardiovascular, stroke, and hypertension; although the range seen is wide. We consider advances in digital health and telemedicine in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
向临床医生、护理人员和服务使用者提供客观数字数据以改善护理和治疗效果的技术应用，统称为数字健康。该领域包括高科技健康设备的使用、远程医疗和健康分析，近年来在英国和全球范围内都有显著增长。多个利益相关者明确认识到，数字健康创新对于未来改善医疗服务和提高医疗服务经济性至关重要。在此，我们通过使用信息学工具对该领域进行客观调查，来探讨与数字健康相关的研究和应用。我们采用了一种定量文本挖掘技术，应用于数字健康领域已发表的作品，以捕捉和分析所采用的关键方法以及这些方法所应用的疾病领域。研究和应用的关键领域显示为心血管疾病、中风和高血压；尽管涉及范围很广。我们结合新冠疫情来考量数字健康和远程医疗的进展。
