Toward a rapid digital health transformation
Bernard GOUGET1
E-mail: b.gouget@icloud.com
1Chair-IFCC Committee on Mobile Health and Bioengineering in Laboratory Medicine (C-MHBLM), Chair IFCC-TF on History, SFBC-International Committee, President-Human Health Care Committee-Cofrac, President-National Committee for selection of the French Reference Laboratories, Ministry of Health (France).
E-health is a field in full development that takes various forms in response to the many challenges that health systems currently face or will face in the next few years. E-health, also called digital health or connected health, is not limited to teleconsultation, the use of which has accelerated considerably due to the COVID-19 epidemic. According WHO, The term digital health may conjure images of advanced, futuristic technology, but in fact it can include a range of interventions, including: electronic health records and standards underpinning the exchange of data; mobile health apps for monitoring and prevention; public health portals that provide transparent access to an individual’s personal health records and contacts with the health system; telemedicine; teleconsultation, medical telemonitoring, as well as mobile health (or m-health) which covers a wide universe of connected objects and mobile applications; integrated care delivery; clinical decisionmaking support tools in primary care; robotics; personalized medicine; nanotechnologies; and artificial intelligence.