Are you familiar with the Gary rule? As many are still mixing up ‘health IT’ and ‘digital health’, I published an editorial in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Research and introduced the Gary rule to help clear up this misconception. Here’s how it goes: If a technological issue comes up in a healthcare setting such as the anti-virus software becomes outdated and we have to call Gary, the IT guy, as he is alone capable of solving it what-ever methods he uses, it’s an IT issue. If Gary is not enough to solve the issue because more stakeholders of healthcare must get involved, (e.g. letting patients bring the data of their trackers into the practice and merging that with electronic medical records), it’s digital health. #study #tmfi #research #themedicalfuturistinstitute #garyrule #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #medicine #technology …see more