The doctor-patient relationship is changing. Patients, equipped with all manner of mobile healthcare apps and the help of the great Doctor Google, are doing more of their own health research online. This is challenging doctors to ‘raise their game’ in their attempts to engage the patient through technology.
But the question has to be asked, do we have the tools yet to effectively engage the patient? Are patient-centric IT solutions really ready for medical use and medically useful enough to become accepted for professional care?
We all know the story of abandoned commercial endeavors like Google’s personal health record, Google Health – and have watched as various European national infrastructure projects have failed.
We asked Kenneth Mandl, a Harvard professor at Boston Children’s Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program, who created the first personal health systems in the US and Des Spence, an inner-city GP and technophile from the UK, whether the time to engage the patient through patient-centric IT solutions has now finally come?
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Date: July 15, 2016