Digital health and perioperative care

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ‘the broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology (IT), wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalised medicine, and is used by providers and other stakeholders in their efforts to reduce inefficiencies, improve access, reduce costs, increase quality, and make medicine more personalised for patients (FDA 2016). More recently, Paul Sonier, a digital health strategist and founder of the Linkedin Digital Health Group with more than 40,000 members, defined digital health as ‘the convergence of the digital and genomic revolutions with health, healthcare, living, and society’ (storyofdigitalhealth.com 2016).