Digital Health Best Practices For Policy Makers: A Free Report

Where should the line be drawn when deciding whether or not to adopt disruptive technologies? As digital health brings up plenty of ethical questions, legal issues, and safety concerns, The Medical Futurist Institute decided to collect the best examples of how governments worldwide tried to adopt digital health. We hope it inspires other policy-makers to take the first steps in shaping their healthcare regulations. Our common goal is to arrive at a better future of healthcare Disruptive technologies spread around like wildfire, but healthcare systems are crumbling under the pressure of problems and changes. So, The Medical Futurist Institute is eager to do what it can to make sure we arrive at the envisioned better future of healthcare. Our collection of best digital health policy practices, Digital Health Best Practices For Policy Makers, is available and accessible to everyone for free and we encourage everyone to use it for the common good. We know that healthcare is on the verge of a paradigm shift due to the appearance of technologies such as artificial intelligence, health sensors, robotics or 3D printing. Accessibility to information and knowledge and the availability of technological solutions outside healthcare leads to change in the doctor-patient relationship as well as in the fall of the “ivory tower” of medicine. The centuries-old notion that the source of ultimate medical knowledge resides in the heads of medical professionals is disappearing. Transform...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Digital Health Research Healthcare Policy digital health strategy digital innovation future health policy Medicine technology Source Type: blogs