[The COVID-19 pandemic : a real opportunity for digital health]

Nowadays, we are facing a global health crisis. The infectious agent, the virus SARS-CoV-2, has some clinical and pathological characteristics which have been described extensively throughout published medical literature. The pandemic outbreak arises in a very particular period. Never before, our political disorganization and lack of collaboration has been highlighted as it was during the present health care crisis. Our health care system is shaking because of the lack of sufficient human and financial resources. However, technological changes, and especially remote health (teleconsultations and remote monitoring) are disrupting the whole ecosystem. We intend to illustrate that the COVID outbreak offers a unique opportunity to accelerate acceptance of these rapid technological changes, which are anyway unavoidable. Teleconsultations and remote monitoring, which both appeared as a devil out of the box from nowhere, at least for some care providers in the health care landscape, are there to stay.