Medical Futurist July 9, 2020
“If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” Maya Angelou is totally right. And exactly that is why we have created this timeline of digital health milestones. It contains the most important events from its history, coming to where we are at this very moment, and it aims to set ground for the next level of innovation.
Technological development, especially on the IT-side, has also launched a consumerist movement in healthcare in the late 20th century. Then, as tech became more user-friendly, it fell into the hands of the average patient. It is now amazingly common to google one’s symptoms, and, interestingly, studies say such symptom checkers are more often wrong than not. This...