This Article Poses A Question All Those In Digital Health Need To Think About! How Do We Empower And Support Care Givers Fully?

This appeared last week:Digital health success hinges on four principlesBianca Phillips Bernard Robertson-DunnIssue 1 / 14 January 2019 This is the third article in a series on the making of the digital health revolution.IN 2012, Dr Eric Topol published The creative destruction of medicine: how the digital revolution will create better health care.Dr Topol ’s book is excellent in describing the problems with the current health care industry. At the end of the book he observes:“Not a single aspect of health and medicine today will ultimately be spared or unaffected in some way. Doctors, hospitals, the life science industry, government, and its regu latory bodies: all are subject to radical transformation.”Dr Topol’s book was written over a decade after a report from the Committee on Quality Health Care in America, which was part of the Institute of Medicine – Crossing the quality chasm: a new health system for the 21st century.Why are we still far from seeing mainstream uptake of digital... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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