The use of modern technologies and digital services is not only changing the way we communicate, they also offer us innovative ways for monitoring our health and well-being.
By innovating in digital health and care we can support our ambition towards reducing inefficiencies in healthcare delivery, improving access, reducing costs, increasing quality of care, making our health services more person-centred, personalising medicine for each patient’s unique needs. It gives people the opportunity to be provided with “smart care” in a homely environment so that they could live in an independent style.
Digital health 2021 will explore the topics in detail, with an eye towards providing benefits and wellness leaders with practical guidance they can use to get the most out of digital health.
m-Health is defined as the medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistances and other wireless devices. mHealth is already being used to monitor a variety of conditions including heart disease, diabetes, autism, insomnia and asthma. The WHO/ITU programme aims to assist governments to use mobile components to reinforce their existing national health activities to prevent, manage, and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk factors.
Benefits include:
- Reduction in health spending
- Healthy population
- Adoption of existing mHealth services
- Opportunities for Research and Development
- Demonstrates commitment to achieving NCD reduction targets
