Current status and future direction of digital health in Korea
- Soo-Yong Shin
- 대한생리학회-대한약리학회
- The Korean Journal of Physiology & Pharmacology
- 제23권 제5호
- 등재여부 : KCI등재
- 2019.09
- 311 - 315 (5 pages)
Recently, digital health has gained the attention of physicians, patients, and healthcare industries. Digital health, a broad umbrella term, can be defined as an emerging health area that uses brand new digital or medical technologies involving genomics, big data, wearables, mobile applications, and artificial intelligence. Digital health has been highlighted as a way of realizing precision medicine, and in addition is expected to become synonymous with health itself with the rapid digitization of all health-related data. In this article, we first define digital health by reviewing the diverse range of definitions among academia and government agencies. Based on these definitions, we then review the current status of digital health, mainly in Korea, suggest points that are missing from the discussion or ought to be added, and provide future directions of digital health in clinical practice by pointing out certain key points
INTRODUCTION
CURRENT STATUS
FUTURE DIRECTION
DISCUSSION