8 Ways To Impress Your Doctor In Digital Health

There’s an intense discussion on how healthcare workers could and should relate to the digital health revolution. We’ve done our fair share, writing tons of articles, like The 7 Must-Haves For The Doctor Of the 21st Century, or 5 AI Tools That Could Help Build A Medical Practice, and The Impact Of Digital Health Technologies On The Future Of Medical Specialties, not to mention 6 Potential Medical Use Cases For ChatGPT. And these are just a few recent examples from the many dozen posts on the topic. On the other hand, information on how to become a “digital patient” is difficult to find. Thus we decided to level the field slightly and come up with a list of suggestions. Here are eight tips that will help anyone to start walking the path of empowered patients – and impress their doctors with these 21st-century skills. 1. Just desire to get engaged with your care Digital health doesn’t equal using gadgets: it is – as I have said a million times before – the cultural transformation that turns the patient-doctor hierarchy into a partnership. It is your health, and as an empowered patient, you will need to actively engage in your care.  To put it very bluntly: even the best of doctors in the best of healthcare systems will not care about it as much as you do. They will of course do their best, but at the end of the day, the single most important stakeholder is you. Think about the analogy of building a house: you can hire the best contractor...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: E-Patients empowered patients digital patient 21st century patients digital health for patients artificial intelligence Source Type: blogs