Digital Health and Wellness Trends

July 6, 2022

Mountaineer News | The Editors

Wellness Wednesday's

What is Digital Health

Digital health is the use of information technology to promote health and wellness. Mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), connected technologies, telehealth, and telemedicine, and personalized care are all examples of digital health.

Digital technology has been leading a transformation in healthcare, from mobile diagnostic applications and algorithms that help treatment choices, doctors make every day to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Digital health tools have an enormous capacity for improving our ability to reliably detect and cure illness, as well as developing better health care delivery.

For health care and related purposes, digital health systems make use of computing platforms, networking, software, and sensors. These systems have a wide variety of applications, ranging from general health to applications as a medical device.

For use as a medicine product, as an underlying diagnosis, or in expansion to other medical products (devices, drugs and biologics). They may also be used as medical devices for development or research.

Using Tele-health to Address Racial and Economic Differences

Healthcare has become more convenient in terms of diagnosis, recovery and prevention of diseases as a result of the expansion of digital health and wellbeing programs. These are expected to continue to develop and have an effect on the well-being of the majority of people.

Even though digital health is widely regarded as beneficial, it is still observed to have different effects on different populations, especially for groups of people who lack sufficient services.

Companies are beginning to recognize the value of ensuring that all people, regardless of their ethnicity, have the same ability to achieve wellness through technology, thereby making digital technologies more inclusive.

This is being undertaken by community-engaged scholars, as well as peer-reviewed and technology-based studies.

Digital Wellness Prevention

A customized and predictive approach to optimizing your fitness, managing chronic illnesses, and identifying future health threats as well as diseases, are provided by new modern health apps and innovations.

Patients with a beneficial impact on cardiovascular disease patients have shown that digital wellness treatments follow patients' measurements, such as blood pressure, lipids, cholesterol, or weight to reduce future cardiovascular effects like hospitalization and morbidity.

Also, research focusing on automated medicinal interventions to combat asthma found abbreviated use of medicinal products and an improved number of days without SABA or asthmatics rescue drug.

Furthermore, the mixture of drugs, pharmacology, and non-pharmacology treatments for the patient with epilepsy and neurologic conditions are used for the wireless symptom monitoring and behavioral and music-based operations.

The Use of Self-Care Technology

In a period when access to health facilities and face-to-face medical examinations may be hampered by COVID-19, digital self-care has been seen to enhance and encourage self-awareness.

Digital media technologies allow users to take an active role in tracking their health and potential illnesses. As a result of COVID-19, more people have reported focusing on their mental health, wellness, physical health, and diet, as well as increasing their self-awareness.

Digital Health and Wellness Services Have Been Made More Accessible

With the advancement of social media sites, mobile apps, and wearable devices, there has been an explosion of digital well-being over the last decade.

Digital technology is seen as having enormous potential for transforming and assisting healthcare providers in correctly diagnosing, treating, and preventing illnesses, thus improving healthcare quality for all.

The value of digital health and fitness programs was projected to be over 106 billion dollars in 2019. And, as a result of the global pandemic, the value of these facilities is expected to rise by another 28.5 percent before 2026. This industry is also projected to have a high rate of service output in all areas.