The digital health space refers to the integration of technology and health care services to improve the overall quality of health care delivery. It encompasses a wide range of innovative and emerging technologies such as wearables, telehealth, artificial intelligence, mobile health, and electronic health records (EHRs). The digital health space offers numerous benefits such as improved patient outcomes, increased access to health care, reduced costs, and improved communication and collaboration between patients and health care providers. For example, patients can now monitor their vital signs such as blood pressure and glucose levels from home using wearable devices and share the data with their doctors in real-time. Telehealth technology allows patients to consult with their health care providers remotely without having to travel to the hospital, making health care more accessible, particularly in remote or rural areas. Artificial intelligence can be used to analyze vast amounts of patient data to identify patterns, predict outcomes, and provide personalized treatment recommendations. Overall, the digital health space is rapidly evolving, and the integration of technology in health

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

The Future of Medicine

There are many 'futurists' forecasting what will develop in the next decade.

Early on in the 21st century we have witnessed the acceptance of electronic health records, health information exchanges, big data and analytics, the development of health care social media, #hcsm, digital communication, mobile health and hardware advances such as Smartwatch

Among these published and verbal futurists are Eric Topol M.D.  Bertalan Mesko,




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Not only  is the  Future of Medicine dealing with Health Reform and Health Information Technology Advances, perhaps the greatest changes will be in  human capital. Medical schools are revising curricula which has had the same format since 1910.



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