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A shift in focus to individuals as users and consumers of digital health highlights the capacity of the field to respond to recent developments, such as the adoption of person-centred care and consumer health technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12916-019-1302-0\">BMC Medicine<\/a>, we argue that this project is not only incomplete, but is fundamentally \u2018uncompletable\u2019 in the face of a highly dynamic landscape of both technological and human challenges. 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