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1 1 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION: The first definition of e-health was born around twenty years ago, and it says: “E-health is an emerging field referring to health services and information delivered or enhanced through the internet and related technologies”. Topics and elements that are important in order to define health concept • Empowerment of consumers and patients • Enchanting quality of care • Enabling information exchange • Education • Efficiency • Equity • Extending conceptually and geographically • Ethics • Encouragement • Evidence based This definition was not really restricted to the use of technology and to the use of electronic technologies, in fact Eysenbach himself, that was the first coming out with the definition of e-health, stated that the “e-” of e-health had different meanings, so he wanted to enlarge the definition since the beginning. Nowadays, after twenty years, we are always speaking about digital transformation. Digital transformation is a term that is used every day, especially in this period with Covid19. • Digital transformation does not mean digital technologies. àdoes not mean to have a lot of opportunities that are able to identify a better way to life, but it is changing the type of life but all this element should be connected, integrate things but must consider things that are reliable • Digital technologies are only the tools that drive and allow the digital transformation. • Digital transformation is a change in culture and organization, while digital technologies are opportunities to revolutionize the model of care. • Digital transformation is not only inside our lives (mobile phones, digital monitoring, etc.), but also inside health care (electronic prescription). We should not only provide this technology, but we also should adopt…