Fierce Healthcare February 1, 2018
Tapping the expertise of consumer tech giants could help shift the healthcare landscape within the next decade, says Stanford’s Lloyd Minor.
Stanford Medicine’s Lloyd Minor, M.D., has a solution to the growing number of complaints that physicians pay more attention to their computer screen than patients sitting in front of them: more technology.
That approach may sound counterintuitive, but Minor says digital health tools that can re-engineer the role of physicians will actually swing the pendulum back toward patients by allowing clinicians to be “teachers, empathetic observers and counselors.”
Technology “should enable healthcare providers to get back to that human interaction,” the dean of Stanford University’s School of Medicine told FierceHealthcare. “A lot of the things that are being...
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