ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some of the key features of contemporary digital health. The ideal of the responsible healthy citizen is continually emphasised and promulgated in digital health. Engagements and encounters with digital technologies generate continual flows of detailed information about people's bodily functions, health conditions or concerns and personal preferences and activities, as well as about medical and health workers, health services and corporate actors in medical and public health domains. The watching capabilities of digital health technologies involve diverse forms of dataveillance across the spectrum. The use of digital technologies blurs the spatial boundaries between public and private surveillance, bringing public surveillance into the domestic sphere. Digital health is a site at which diverse interests intersect. Health and medical work is changed in significant ways by the use of digital technologies. Digital devices and software, as well as the data they generate, often demand novel sensory and sense-making responses from lay people and healthcare professionals alike.
