Talk:Digital health

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2019 and 4 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Alex K. Tran (article contribs).

Move?

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Favonian (talk) 20:42, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

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Digital health → Digital Health –

• the page references a proper noun, and should be noted as such. See similar pages/concepts that are indicated as proper nouns: "Connected Health" and "Quantitative Self" Lasalisbury4 (talk) 05:18, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
• Status as a proper name needs to be demonstrated. On the face of it, it does not qualify. Noetica^Tea? 05:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
• The concept of digital health and digital healthcare are similar. Recommend that these pages be merged and the new reference be "digital health" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.123.125.156 (talk) 12:30, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Good idea. --BDD (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose via WP:MOSCAPS. Srsrox (talk) 00:37, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose It seems to me that this subject's notability has not been adequately demonstrated, let alone deserving of capital letters in being specific rather than generic. -- Ohconfucius ^{ping / poke} 13:58, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:NCCAPS. Connected Health should be moved, which I'll do, and Quantitative Self (or Quantitative self) doesn't exist, so I don't know what you meant by that. There was a similar RM a few months ago that moved the name of a discipline to an uncapitalized form, but I'm afraid I can't find it at the moment. --BDD (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

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According to my opinion the concept of 'Digital Health' should be defined as follows:

Digital health characterizes the convergence of the digital revolution or rather information and communication technologies including genetics with healthcare and health. The discipline involves information and communication services to digitize as well as analyze human beings in order to improve individual steps of the care value chain. Additionally, digital health intervenes in the interplay of stakeholders to enable a ubiquitous proactivity regarding the care process.

Furthermore, the concept represents an umbrella concept in relation to other healthcare practices supported by information and communication technology. Digital health is also seen as a social policy and thus goes beyond the actual service. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.18.240.169 (talk) 11:29, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Recent edit dispute

User:Psonnier has made a number of edits to this article recently with which I disagree.

Psonnier has added a sentence on market value in 2016. This is a useful addition. However, s/he has removed cited material on market value in 2014. I see no problem with retaining the 2014 information along side the 2016 information.

The final sentence of the article cites storyofdigitalhealth.com/definition/ Psonnier has added a direct link to that article within the text on top of the existing ref citation. This is unnecessary and goes against the Manual of Style.

Psonnier has removed 5 URLs from external links without explanation, while leaving another by Paul Sonnier. I've not been through all the external links, but some discussion of which of these are warranted seems appropriate.

The biggest disagreement is that Psonnier has added genomics as being central to the initial definition of digital health. No specific citation has been given to support this, although an additional paragraph of text has been offered citing a geneticist that does not use the phrase "digital health" at all. While genomics is part of the picture, I don't see anything to warrant it being made central to the definition of "digital health". Bondegezou (talk) 11:37, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

I added a sentence citing a journal in this area, offering a definition of digital health. User:Psonnier, you have now removed this. Could you explain your reasoning, and also address the other points above? Bondegezou (talk) 10:27, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Note that Psonnier operates this website and commercial platform so is WP:COI. I will leave a note on his Talk page. --Zefr (talk) 20:54, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal

We have a separate article for digital healthcare, that explicitly states that "digital healthcare" is a synonym for "digital health". Both articles need work. An obvious starting point is to merge their content. "Digital health" is the more usual term, so I suggest merging digital healthcare here. Bondegezou (talk) 11:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

• Support. Will continue observation and editing. --Zefr (talk) 21:18, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
• Support. Seems like a logical merge. —Shelley V. Adams ‹blame
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Merge done. Bondegezou (talk) 10:55, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Change definition in the intro

Discussing changing the definition used in the introduction.

'Digital health is the convergence of digital and genomic technologies with health, healthcare, living, and society to enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery and make medicines more personalized and precise.'

The current definition (copied above) includes implementation and desired outcomes of good implementations a part of the generic definition. I suggest changing to something else.

"Digital Health" is 'an umbrella term for the use of technology in healthcare, which includes medical devices and information systems used in doctors' offices and hospitals, personal fitness, DNA testing and the future of medicine.'

My version is… "Digital Health" is the application of digital technologies to the health care system; its management, delivery, information sharing, analytics, diagnostics and treatment.

Then you can look at “what is GOOD digital health?”. Implementations determine the problems being solved, the technologies being used, the desired outcomes and personalisation. Don't assume all "Digital Health" solutions deliver safer, more efficient, reduce costs, increase access and increase quality. These outcomes are desired and often included in the design strategies but are not part of the original definition of the broad term "Digital health".

Any other suggestions? tygrus (talk) 07:28, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

I've just removed the phrase "and genomic" from the lede. I like your phrasing more generally. Perhaps a further review of what reliable sources say would be useful? Lupton (2014, doi:10.1111/soc4.12226), says, "Digital health is a term that is becoming frequently adopted to encompass a wide range of technologies related to health and medicine." Kostkova (2015, here) has a definition. There's more here and here. Bondegezou (talk) 09:42, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

References

Sources for Alex K. Tran's future additions: "Digital health". US Food and Drug Administration. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

https://medium.com/the-sustainable-future/the-coeducation-of-civic-tech-and-digital-health-b57b89252f34

https://medium.com/tradecraft-traction/navigating-the-field-of-civic-tech-c1f9670c8f69

https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/8-technologies-changing-healthcare/

https://healthinformatics.uic.edu/blog/5-ways-technology-is-improving-health/

https://online.king.edu/news/digitizing-healthcare-how-technology-is-improving-medical-care/

http://news.mit.edu/topic/health

https://healthadministrationdegree.usc.edu/blog/3-challenges-of-technology-implementation-in-healthcare/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex K. Tran (talk • contribs) 02:56, 2 October 2019 (UTC)