Pharmacy Times July 22, 2024
Innovations are expanding opportunities for care.
Digital technologies and smart devices are now used in every aspect of our lives. Further innovation in the digital health realm is growing and has the potential to reduce inefficiencies in the health care system by sharing health data with providers, decreasing costs related to unnecessary health care visits and improving patients’ quality of life and clinical outcomes by better tailoring treatment to the individual’s health needs.1,2
Digital tools, such as mobile health (mHealth), health care wearable devices, health information technology, and telehealth/telemedicine, can give health care providers a more longitudinal view of a patient’s health through access to their health data.1-4 These tools can act as extenders for the clinician to the patient’s...