Nurse researchers should contribute to the meaningful design and implementation of digital innovations so that in the future end-users and healthcare policy and practice can all feel the benefit

Technology is increasingly pervasive in our lives, and the sentiment it evokes will depend on the nature of the activity that it enables or restricts. Throughout the isolation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, technology capacity and capability has mobilised a way of life that could not be achieved, or imagined, without technological solutions.