Digital health solutions

The health technology sector also includes various digital health solutions, including:

• mobile devices and mHealth applications (e.g. smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices)
• Wearable devices (e.g. smartwatches, rings and other electronic devices for the human body)
• electronic patient records
• Remote technologies (including symptom questionnaires, remote appointments, patient portals, text messages, phone calls, video guidance, and other remote services).

Digital solutions can improve both access to care and the quality and safety of healthcare products and services. The solutions serve healthcare decision-makers, professionals, and patients and healthy people.

The most of the modern digital health technologies utilize data, artificial intelligence, sensors, software, cloud services, computing power, high memory capacity, advanced infrastructure, and often open source operating systems.

Digital solutions are not regulated by any single law or regulation; instead, the standard framework is made up of several different regulatory instruments. Some digital solutions may be medical devices for medical purposes, while others may be wellness technologies.