ReviewFrontiers in public health2025
Digital health: current applications, challenges, and future directions for enhancing healthcare quality and safety.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Determinants and Health Outcomes of Digital Health Literacy in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Digital health implementation research across selected African countries: a bibliometric analysis of maternal health and infectious diseases with observations on precision medicine representation (2015-2025).Frontiers in digital health · 2026Pooled it
- Embracing Digital as a Paradigm Shift in Medical Affairs.Pharmaceutical medicine · 2026Review
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- Interrelations of work with health and wellbeing on a 50+ year old workforce assessed using longitudinal self-reports and actigraphy.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Protecting Informational Self-determination in AI-driven Precision Oncology: Privacy, Ethics, and Governance Challenges.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2026Article
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- Family Voices in Digital Patient Navigation for Cervical Cancer Care in Indonesia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Role of Digital Health Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Modern Public Health Surveillance.Cureus · 2026Review
- Self-Management Combined With Digital Health Interventions to Improve Dietary Behavior, Exercise Behavior, Stress Management Behavior, and Blood Pressure Among Thais With Uncontrolled Hypertension: Protocol for an Explanatory Sequential Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- State of Digital Health in 32 Countries of the WHO African Region: A Multi-Country Maturity Assessment with Short-Term Longitudinal Comparisons Across Leadership, Policy, and Health Systems Domains (2023 - 2025).Journal of healthcare leadership · 2026Article
- Digital health platforms for intrinsic capacity monitoring in community-based integrated care for older adults: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Integrating digital health and remote monitoring: emerging trends in cardiac rehabilitation research for chronic heart failure.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Redefining pandemic resilience: a roadmap for post-infectious syndrome preparedness and health system transformation.Frontiers in health services · 2026Article
- Designing and conducting interventional trials with passive-sensing applications on patient-owned smartphones: challenges and recommendations from the BD4QoL study.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of the Short-Form BrainOK: An Efficient Digital Screening Tool for Mild Cognitive Impairment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Digital Health Technologies (DHTs) have become a cornerstone of modern healthcare, significantly improving quality and safety across clinical practice, public health, and medical research. Originating in the mid-to-late 20th century, DHTs have facilitated substantial progress in personalized medicine, predictive analytics, and remote patient monitoring through the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI), wearable devices, and telemedicine platforms. During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, these technologies proved indispensable for epidemic surveillance and precision containment, while also mitigating healthcare access disruptions. Nevertheless, critical challenges including the digital ethics and equity, technical and regulatory policy restrictions, privacy and data security concerns, and clinical workflow integration issues remain to be addressed. This narrative review explores the transformative role of DHTs throughout the disease management continuum-from prevention to prognosis-and evaluates their contributions to healthcare quality and safety. It also provides strategies for stakeholders to address existing barriers. By overcoming these challenges, DHTs can further elevate healthcare standards, fostering a safer and more efficient global healthcare system.
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