Telehealth and Mhealth
In this lecture, we will review Telehealth, Telemedicine and Mobile Health. World Health Organization (WHO) defines Telemedicine as “the delivery of healthcare services, where distance is a critical factor, by …
Course: Digital Health Essentials
Uses of of Clinical Data
Structured Versus Free Text For documentation and retrieval purposes, there is a dilemma if the clinical data should be structured (coded) or inaccessible text format. Medicine lacks uniform structured vocabulary …
Why Digital Health?
Why Digital Health? Reduce Medical Errors By using Information and Communication Technology, Digital Health can help reduce medical errors. For example, when collecting data, computers will be able to detect …
Definition and history of digital health
You might not notice this phenomenon, but you’re already in the digital health environment. Information and communication technology has been used for business purposes for more than 70 years. According …