AHIMA May 15, 2019
The age of digital transformation across many industry sectors is in full swing. While healthcare often paces behind others when it comes to technology innovation and adoption, this is not the case with digital health—start-ups in this sector raised a record $14.6 billion in 2018.1 But what does digital transformation encompass in healthcare? This article explores the current state of digital health—the business case, the digital health landscape, and the various barriers to its adoption and sustainability.
Digital Health Defined
There are many different definitions of digital health that contribute to the functional definition employed for this article: digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with health, healthcare, and living to enhance healthcare delivery and make approaches to health...