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Introduction
According to Murray, there are extensive potential in improving health, such as, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and mental health conditions. Murray expresses that, "The approach is pragmatic, with a focus on decision making and moving the science forward, generating cumulative knowledge around identifying important components, and working out how to test them with a view on "improving the quality and effectiveness of DHIs and the efficiency of the research process." This quote depicts that with the improvement of digital technology there are ways to help long term health conditions for people. Some interventions discussed are allowing people to share experience with others struggling with related issues, medication, an increase in communication with doctors, and also allowing people to monitor and track their own health with advanced technology.

Murray addressed the digital health issue by adopting an autoethnographic approach. An autoethnographic approach involves a researcher by developing a crucial topic and discussing its importance revolving through the social aspect. Murray expresses three major topics she believes are important to society. She focuses on "eHealth for accessing primary care; geographically distance telehealth; and WT for fitness." The observation with these involvements reflects a broader picture of how digital health and health geography develop a clearer lens that allows society to emerge an effective way to help people.

Understanding Digital Health
According to Murray, digital health is a set of practices and technologies as well as the study of academic investigation. Digital health can be both online or offline whether it is through the internet or other electronic devices such a laptops and phones. Overall digital health technologies is made to collect and analyze an extensive amount of data relating to health. That data is then used to make diagnoses, assessing to population health measures, and a clear plan for healthcare for the public. Murray states, "They also facilitate the delivery of healthcare". By allocating all of the patients needs by providing access to all health care workers even form far away, by being efficient with time by innovating tools, and by providing tools that encourage self-care practices that patients can do on their own. One main point derived for the purpose of digital health is to have valuable access to health care providers even through distance. Each individual is granted the same attention and care even from distance.

Others who engaged in digital health are geographers. According to Maddy Thompson Cutchin "adopted the lens of territoriality to understand how telemedicine alters the regionalization of care and describing the ambivalent nature of ‘virtual medicine’ as ‘both beneficial and detrimental to the way medical care is carried out and experienced." In 2022 Cutchin proposed a new "virtual medical geographies," which may have a lost in shift towards health geographies, which in retrospect people may have missed his ideas. However, there are other geographers which seemed to bring critical attention to the tenacity of how geographical exploration falls and divides between urban and rural areas

Now through the therapeutic landscapes Thompson develops an idea how spatial analysis of digital health should be carefully inspected into how spaces and places of health. Thompson states that therapeutic landscapes is "a concept that examines the interplay between health and the physical, representational, and more-than-representational elements of place, is thus a useful starting point from which to examine the geographies of digital health, enabling us to recognize and include online and digital spaces as landscapes that facilitate, or inhibit, the healing process." This point is useful in examining that there is a relevance connection between health and the physical elements to the place and environment which enables digital health to provide representation for all.