Milestones Of Digital Health: Infographic About Its Timeline

“If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” Maya Angelou is totally right. And exactly that is why we have created this timeline of digital health milestones. It contains the most important events from its history, coming to where we are at this very moment, and it aims to set ground for the next level of innovation. Technological development, especially on the IT-side, has also launched a consumerist movement in healthcare in the late 20th century. Then, as tech became more user-friendly, it fell into the hands of the average patient. It is now amazingly common to google one’s symptoms, and, interestingly, studies say such symptom checkers are more often wrong than not. This was helped by the advent of smartphones, the 3-4-5G revolution, and beyond.  Healthcare and information technology researcher Susannah Fox was among the first to recognise the cultural nature of this change. This means that the change in the patient-doctor relationship is much more an engine of the movement than a particular technology or microchip. Because what matters is how the patient-physician relationship has transformed in light of 2,000 years of health history. What matters is that patients just want more attention and time, not gadgets. And what matters is that doctors want to enjoy their work and do what they became doctors for. Slowly, digital health began to outgrow health IT and began to turn into somethin...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence E-Patients Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education fda infographics AMA Tom Ferguson PatientsIncluded Lucien Engelen BMJ Patient Panel Source Type: blogs