Global Strategy on Digital Health
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Dhulika Dhingra1, Aashima Dabas2
1Department of Pediatrics, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya, New Delhi, India.
Abstract:
Digital technology has been a revolutionary foray in education, industry, research and recently, healthcare. Digital health encompasses various aspects of technology like information and communication, mobile health, data-recording and telemedicine. There has been an exponential and unregulated increase in digital health services in last few years which have raised concerns over data privacy, ethical standards and quality of services. The World Health Organization recently released the global strategy on digital health as a visionary document that provides a framework for countries to implement and expand digital health services. The following update briefly highlights the salient features of the update.
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