What Is Digital Health and How Is It Evolving?

Long gone are the days when physicians made house calls to care for their neighbors and got paid directly with cash or even goods and services. As healthcare and technology have advanced over the past several decades and payer models have evolved, so have the expectations of physicians and their patients.
Patients started making appointments to visit doctors’ offices, and doctors began keeping paper records. That eventually evolved to electronic health records, which were easier for clinicians and other stakeholders to access. However, patients had no way of receiving that information. This…