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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

Physicians are evolving as digital doctors, embracing the growing role of data generated in electronic health records as well as through their patients using wearable technologies and mobile health apps downloaded in ubiquitous smartphones, described in The Rise of the Data-Driven Physician , a 2020 Health Trends Report from Stanford Medicine.

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The Heart of Health at CES 2020 – Evidence & Innovation Bridge Consumers and Doctors

Health Populi

Diagnostics, represented by Last Gadget Standing winner for CES 2020, MedWand — “a doctor’s visit at a patient’s fingertips” — bolstering patient engagement in-between physician visits.

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ChatGPT summary of Congressional Testimony on “Innovation and Patient Access”

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Josh Makower, a physician-inventor, entrepreneur, and professor at Stanford University, testifies about the challenges faced by medical technology innovators in accessing timely reimbursement for their breakthrough medical technologies. Kesselheim MD, JD, MPH Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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Do-It-Yourself Innovation Comes to Health at Home – Telehealth, Fjord 2021 Trends and #CES2021

Health Populi

Almost overnight, school lessons and doctors’ appointments were online. “Historically, people have often been quick to adopt new digital technology and slower to adapt to what it can help them achieve,” Fjord noted. .”

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues.

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Newsletter, March 2023

Patient Safety Movement

These figures are also consistent with diagnostic errors and harm rates in primary care and inpatient settings. This prompted Jonathan Edlow and Peter Pronovost to write a Viewpoint, which was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association at the end of February. Yours, Michael A.E.