Digital Health June 24, 2019
Patient access to digital technologies will drive health innovation in four key areas over the next decade, a report has found.
Artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostics; personalised medicine; nano-tracking and targeting; and virtual relief, will be at the forefront of “healthy life solutions”, according to The Future Laboratory’s ‘Consumer Health Futures’ report.
Unprecedented access to innovations such as smart devices, AI, smartphone and wearables is “empowering” consumers and enabling them to better manage their own health.
The number of people using apps to track health data has more than doubled since March 2014, according to Deloitte’s 2018 health care consumer survey.
“As wearables become increasingly sophisticated through the addition of AI, consumers will be able to create eco-systems of connected devices,...