Digital Health

Overview

Digital health is the application of information and communication technologies to the delivery, management, and improvement of health and care services. It encompasses electronic health records, clinical information systems, mobile health applications, telemedicine, decision-support tools, and data analytics used to coordinate care across patients and populations. A central aim is to strengthen the continuity, safety, and accessibility of patient care: purpose-built information systems can manage complex clinical workflows such as blood transfusion and inventory tracking, link distributed providers, and reduce errors that arise from paper-based or fragmented records. In population and public-health contexts, digital tools support surveillance, monitoring of immunization and vaccine uptake, and the targeting of preventive interventions. Digital health also intersects with health-services research, where qualitative and quantitative methods evaluate how technologies are adopted, the barriers and facilitators to implementation, and their effects on access and outcomes. Core considerations include interoperability between systems, data quality and governance, privacy and security, equitable access in low-resource settings, and usability for frontline workers. Sub-areas span clinical informatics, telehealth, consumer and mobile health, electronic registries, and digital epidemiology. Effective deployment depends as much on workflow integration and human factors as on the underlying technology.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 2 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

• Appreciating the experience of multiple sclerosis fatigue
  2023 · British Journal of Occupational Therapy
• Appreciating the experience of multiple sclerosis fatigue
  Toni Van Denend et al. · 2023 · British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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