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The digital technologies (and related factors and processes) that directly impact health, through their application in health systems, health care, and self-monitoring of health status and behaviours; the digital technologies (and related factors and processes) that indirectly impact health, through their influence (both positive and negative) on the social, commercial, and environmental determinants of health; and the digital ecosystem itself, including the variable dynamics of digital and data access and literacy and their implications for health equity.