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Digital health interventions have the power to positively transform the way patients manage their health, also impacting the workforce of the healthcare system and how the system operates overall. Bringing a digital aspect to healthcare and the rightly built interventions, means accessible, easier, tailored, with long-lasting results \u2014 read on to see how all this can be possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are digital health interventions?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Digital health interventions support individuals, both the users and the workforce of the health(care) system, and address the needs and challenges of the overall health system by using digital technologies in the form of different applications and services.<\/b><\/p>\n

The <\/span>WHO\u2019s latest publication<\/span><\/a> adds that digital health interventions can target patients or users of health services, healthcare providers, health system managers, and data services \u2014 below we\u2019ll mainly focus on the first group, although such interventions usually have wide-ranging impact across the health system, reaching other groups as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

These interventions point to the the concept and practice of <\/span>digital transformation in health <\/b>which is the comprehensive combination of different innovative technologies, analytics and processes for the improvement of the healthcare system itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Why and when is digital health intervention useful?<\/b><\/h3>\n

Digital health interventions work at the intersection of health(care) and technology, in the field of, as the name suggests, digital health<\/b>, and so play an important role in enhancing the way that all the members of the healthcare system approach health issues \u2014 from broadening access to the healthcare system to improving the services available.<\/span><\/p>\n

Digital health interventions help patients manage their health via computers, smartphones, and even virtual reality<\/b>, and can be used, for instance, to facilitate targeted communications to individuals through reminders and health promotion messaging in order to stimulate demand for services and broaden access to health information.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is digital health?<\/b><\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>European Commission<\/span><\/a>, the purposes of digital health are \u201cto improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and management of health-related issues and to monitor and manage lifestyle habits that impact health\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the related tools and practices, the <\/span>FDA<\/span><\/a> lists <\/span>\u201c<\/b>mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized medicine\u201d and the <\/span>WHO<\/span><\/a> mentions \u201cartificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, health data, health information systems, the infodemic, the Internet of Things, interoperability and telemedicine.\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Patients, in general, need to do the following to manage their health:<\/b><\/p>\n