Understanding Healthcare Evolution - HealthTech Magazines

Physicians, like other professionals in this Era of Amazon reviews, are finding themselves inundated with questions generated by the wealth of information available to patients via internet searches, wearables, and self-diagnosis applications, losing control of an age-old process to discover a patient's diagnosis. Doctors will experience more patients presenting them with self-diagnosis, setting appointments for confirmation or rebuttal of their own data-driven conclusions; and doctors will not always maintain control over initiating the "art" of diagnosis. Increasingly, they find themselves in the middle of a process that once began in their office. Smart technology, wearable health monitoring devices, and the software connecting them--the Internet of Things--has established greater expectations of personalization, customization, and timeliness in healthcare treatment. The current care model is slow to embrace the patient as partner in his or her health management.