Inside Digital Health March 11, 2019
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.… I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” To this day, those lines from Space Odyssey 2001 still elicit fear in the minds of those who worry that computers will enslave humanity. Those same concerns have found a new generation of techno-skeptics who worry that digital assistants like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are spying on us with the eventual goal of monetizing our every movement.
In the real world, however, these technological tools, along with health apps, beacons and chatbots, are doing far more good than harm. And in healthcare, they are transformative, enabling patients to monitor their heart rate, plasma glucose and respirations, communicate remotely with clinicians, securely store their medical...
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