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Since 2020, digital health communication priorities have shifted from promotional outreach to crisis response, telehealth infrastructure, misinformation management, and AI integration, establishing digital communication as a core health system infrastructure. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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The study aims to analyze changes in digital health communication themes from 2010 to 2025, particularly before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 4, 2026Saudi Journal of Health Systems ResearchOpen Access

Thematic Evolution of Digital Health Communication (2010–2025): A Global Bibliometric Analysis and Health Systems Implication

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MKMingxuan KongDalian University of Foreign Languages WLWenyu LiuDalian University of Foreign Languages

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A global bibliometric analysis reveals shifts in digital health priorities, suggesting implications for health systems.

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The study aims to analyze changes in digital health communication themes from 2010 to 2025, particularly before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Used bibliometric analysis to track thematic evolution from 2010 to 2025.
Contrasted themes from the pre-COVID-19 and in-pandemic periods.
Identified ten core domains using n-gram function in NLTK.
Examined the implications of shifts in digital health communication for health systems.
Shifted emphasis from health promotion to crisis response and service delivery since 2020.
Rise in short-form and visual platforms for communication.
Telehealth became mainstream infrastructure.
Misinformation management and trust-building gained importance.
AI integration in healthcare and heightened focus on equity.

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Kong et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d0afc7659487ece0fa5cd1 https://doi.org/10.1159/000551038

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