What is health technology?

• A. Tools, equipment, and digital systems used to measure, monitor, diagnose, and treat health conditions
• B. Only medical devices
• C. A pharmaceutical regimen
• D. A hospital architectural plan

Answer: (A)

Health technology encompasses the tools, equipment, and digital systems that help measure, monitor, diagnose, and treat health conditions. It isn’t limited to physical devices; it includes software, apps, telemedicine platforms, wearable sensors, imaging, electronic health records, and AI decision-support that enable data collection, decision-making, and care delivery. This broader view best captures how modern health care uses both hardware and digital systems to support prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring. The other options are narrower or miss the tech aspect: a pharmaceutical regimen is about medicines, not technology; a hospital architectural plan concerns infrastructure, not care tools; and focusing only on devices omits the important software and digital systems that underpin current health care.