Digital Health

• Establish a forum to address the opportunities and challenges emerging in the field of digital health
• Understand the role of health economics and outcomes research (HEOR) in the value assessment of digital health solutions
• Investigate the ways in which the validity and reliability of digital health technologies can be evaluated
• Promote the effective use of digital technologies to improve patient outcomes and efficiency of healthcare systems

The term "digital health" is extremely broad and can include electronic medical records, electronic health records, telemedicine, mobile health (mHealth), and wireless health, amongst others. Utilization of digital health technologies provides opportunities to increase the quality of care, accuracy of healthcare analytics, and ensure greater safety owing to the patient follow-up. However, digital health represents a field fraught with challenges within the healthcare market. Not only are there numerous and different ways to classify and define “digital health” and related subtopics, there is also a lack of methodological approaches available to assess the value of digital health solutions.  The usefulness along with the quality and reliability of health information gathered via digital health (eg mobile apps) must be addressed before one can feel confident of the reliability of digital health solutions and subsequent use by patients and researchers for assessing the value of healthcare interventions.