The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future

Overview

Journal NAM Perspect

Specialty Public Health

Date 2022 Sep 30

PMID 36177208

Authors

Amy Abernethy

Laura Adams

Meredith Barrett

Christine Bechtel

Patricia Brennan

Atul Butte

Judith Faulkner

Elaine Fontaine

Stephen Friedhoff

John Halamka

Michael Howell

Kevin Johnson

Peter Long

Deven McGraw

Redonda Miller

Peter Lee

Jonathan Perlin

Donald Rucker

Lew Sandy

Lucia Savage

Lisa Stump

Paul Tang

Eric Topol

Reed Tuckson

Kristen Valdes

Affiliations

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