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Like most tech lovers, I’m excited about the upcoming CES conference. I won’t be attending in person but will be watching it very closely from a virtual platform. As a physician, I am particularly interested in health tech and how it can improve patient outcomes – both individual patients as well as populations of patients. But my assessment of tech this year will be very different than previous years.
How so?
The COVID pandemic has changed the way we evaluate health technologies in four important and distinct ways.
The real future of digital health is when tech tools continuously collect health data points and help interpret the information and provide preliminary diagnoses to patients. The doctor isn’t going to be left out of this equation, but the difference will be that the patient will no longer be left out. It’s the patient who will be at the center of how these technologies function from start to finish.
I’m sure I still going to be wow-ed this year and be entertained by the advancements we have made, especially during the last two years. But I’m also going to ask tougher questions on innovation, especially as relates to the purpose and impact.
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