Neil Versel posted a great poll asking people which term they prefer. You can vote on it below:
I usually don’t dig into the terminology and branding side of things. At the end of the day, for me it’s all about making sure that we understand each other. If you call something digital health or connected health or mobile health, they’re all the same genre of item. To be honest, I mostly ignore all of those words and want to know what the application actually does.
However, Neil brought up a good point in his post about the lack of consensus in his poll. Here’s his summary of the poll results:
In any case, these results, however unscientific they may be, are representative of the fact that it is so hard to reach consensus on anything in health IT. They also are symbolic of the silos that still exist in newer technologies.
Consensus in healthcare is really hard. I’m reminded of what someone at the Dell Healthcare Think Tank event I participated in said, “Healthcare is second only to florists when it comes to market fragmentation.” It’s like steering a ship with hundreds of rudders all pointing different directions. Certainly not an easy task and not something I see changing soon.
[…] you to consider: digital therapeutics. I guess I could add it to the list I polled about earlier: Digital Health, Connected Health, Wireless Health, Mobile Health, and Telehealth. By the way, the poll results are showing a mix basket when it comes to using these terms. Digital […]