Digital Healthcare Service
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A Digital Healthcare Service is a healthcare service that can solve digital health tasks.
- Context:
- It can improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes by leveraging technology, such as mobile devices, wearables, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and telecommunication platforms.
- It can address various aspects of healthcare, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and management of medical conditions.
- It can empower patients to take a more active role in their healthcare by providing tools and information to better manage their health.
- It can enhance communication and collaboration between healthcare providers, patients, and other stakeholders in the healthcare system.
- Example(s):
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Digital platforms for storing, managing, and exchanging patient health information.
- Telemedicine: Remote healthcare delivery through video conferencing or other digital communication tools.
- Remote Patient Monitoring: Wearable devices and sensors for collecting and transmitting health data to healthcare providers.
- Digital Therapeutics: Software-based interventions for managing or treating medical conditions.
- Mobile Health Apps: Smartphone applications for health management, personal health data tracking, or guidance on health topics.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Traditional Paper Medical Records: Physical documents that contain patient health information but lack the digital functionality of EHRs.
- See: Healthcare App, Health Information Technology, eHealth, mHealth, Telehealth, HealthTech, MedTech.