The special issue of The Journal of Clinical and Translational Research just came out. Do you know the difference between health IT and digital health? A lot of people and even large organizations don't. That's why I introduced the Gary-rule in it. Here it is. If a technological issue comes up in a healthcare setting such as the antivirus software becomes outdated or the electronic medical record system stopped working, and we have to call Gary, the IT guy, as he is alone capable of solving it whatever methods he uses, it’s an IT issue. If Gary is not enough to address the problem because more stakeholders of healthcare must get involved, (e.g., letting patients bring the data of their trackers into the medical practice and merge that with electronic medical records, or allowing physicians to do remote consultations on a regular basis), it’s digital health. The paper is in open access: https://lnkd.in/g2UvetW #healthcare #medicine #digitalhealth #healthIT #future …see more