JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

One Digital Health is proposed as a unified framework comprising two Keys, three Perspectives, and five Dimensions to conceptualize the digital transformation of future health ecosystems bridging a systemic approach of health and life sciences (One Health) with a broad digital technology perspective (Digital Health) to cover human health, animal health, and the environment in the digital age. This allows to examine how future generations of health informaticians will address the intrinsic complexity of novel health and care scenarios in the digitally transformed health ecosystems. In an emerging hybrid landscape, citizens and their health data are called to play a central role viewed through an individual and population lens. Digital health literacy, the capacity to build understanding and engage in health prevention activities, self-management and collaboration to prevent, control and alleviate potential problems: we support that outcomes of a systemic ecosystem-driven public health and data science research approach, are keys to maintaining a healthy One Digital Heal ecosystem. To this purpose, One Digital Heal must become an active and forceful approach for preventing and managing health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemics.