Whole-person care is what healthcare needs to make a transformational shift. With digital health, we could see this finally happen. Correctly implemented, digital health could mobilize qualified care providers to facilitate easier access to healthcare services in a holistic and timely fashion. The vision behind it is to combine technologies across the patient care journey to deliver holistic care and insights. This will facilitate the collection and understanding of data from diagnostics to lifestyle and disease management, moving away from the current episodic model.

Under the existing paradigm, healthcare is delivered in an episodic format. Attention is placed on treatment and risk management which limits the patient’s ability to cope, acclimatize, and thrive. But digital health facilitates the successful delivery of long-term and holistic care which takes into consideration the needs of both patients and healthcare providers. The vision is to transform “digital healthcare” into “healthcare”.