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HIMSS: Digital Health

Digital health innovation involves making rapid changes in healthcare through digital technologies to enhance patient care, health services, and processes. Health innovations can prevent the threat of digital disruption by making improvements in healthcare services. The use and scale-up of digital healthcare innovation solutions can help in understanding how people will achieve higher standards of health globally. They will also help in knowing how to access healthcare services for protecting and promoting the health and well-being of individuals. Digital health or digital healthcare refers to the use of information technology in the healthcare sector to facilitate better health. It includes different categories, such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth, telemedicine, and personalized medicine, and is the application of digital transformation into the healthcare sector through disruptive technologies and cultural changes.