Let’s get digital physicals

IF you unconsciously sang the title of this article to the tune of a throwback pop hit, then you’re old enough to need an annual physical examination. If you don’t have a clue about what No. 1 song the headline alludes to, then you’re young enough to know that digital is the way to go when it comes to annual and even periodic physicals, particularly during a pandemic.

Under whatever demographic you fall, especially amid a global health crisis, getting a digital physical requires a robust health-care system, a sense of trust in digital health providers and accessibility of digital health services. Here are six things on which baby boomers, generation xers, millennials and generation zers have to be on the same page.