Inside Digital Health July 18, 2019
The practice of medicine has historically been focused on the episodic treatment of acute problems, but today’s healthcare system is being reoriented toward a more preventive model. New technologies that allow patients to monitor and manage their own physiology are providing a boost to this shift. Technology is opening up exciting new opportunities, but the patient-generated data revolution is fraught with complexity that we are only now beginning to address.
Until quite recently, the act of measuring any aspect of a patient’s physiology was difficult, complicated and costly. For example, obtaining an EKG reading would require trained technicians to connect a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-certified device to the patient in a doctor’s office. Such a test would be...
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