Digital health
Digital health – a broad umbrella term encompassing e-health, as well as developing areas such as the use of advanced computer sciences (for example, in the fields of “big data”, genomics and artificial intelligence) – plays an important role in strengthening health systems and public health, increasing equity in access to health services, and in working towards universal health coverage.
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Empowerment through Digital Health – virtual rooms of real patients: a Georgian doctor reimagines his country’s health-care system
“There was a crisis of information flow between the system and the patients at home,” says Dr Davit Mrelashvili, a neurologist from Georgia, referring to the pressure on his country’s health-care system when COVID-19 took hold
