Worldwide technology and its changes play a major role in each individual’s life. The current trend of the society is to adopt every change in the field of communication technology. The mobile phones are boon of this century. The effects of digitalization with respect to health has been discussed in this article with remedial measures that can be adopted in order to have increased beneficial effects rather than addictive behaviors or altered physical and mental health conditions. The advantages include increase in knowledge about various diseases and their preventive aspects, disaster preparedness, screening of diseases and increase in the number of e-participants. The disadvantages include various elements like musculoskeletal disorders, sleep disorders, behavioural changes, internet addiction, effect on brain, trouble in cognition, obesity etc. Preventive measures for reducing the adverse effects on health can be limitation in the use of digital devices according to the place of use.
