After breathlessly ascending the peak of inflated expectations, and careening down through the trough of despair, digital health seems poised to re-emerge, battered but not beaten, in the form of digital medicine: digital health plus evidence plus humility. As a discipline, digital medicine encapsulates both broad professional expertise and responsibilities concerning the use of these digital tools. She pointed out that one of Sage’s key learnings has been that digital studies have astonishingly steep retention curves – i.e. “The A team [in the digital and data space] are not M.D.’s,” Gersing said. With time, effort, and bit of luck, I suspect they will be the change we all wish to see.

Source: Forbes May 19, 2019 00:33 UTC