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Has technology significantly empowered patients? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 307
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  • AlmostAdjusted - 9 years ago

    Is the technology available to empower patients, yes. Has technology significantly empowered patients, no. There are numerous portals at play, starting with the EMR portal, but then there is the insurance portal. Then, possibly the HIE portal. There are specialist portals and cloud integrated platforms. Then there are the ever growing home care apps that need to be integrated. Wearables with their apps need to be integrated. There are very few individuals with the heathcare technology experience that can holistically speak to the breadth and depth of these diverse technologies, and the FDA for sure can not help. Additionally, there isn't any body of standards that is driving the ease of integration, instead the market is evolving with many technologies and an every growing list of self-serving APIs to move data from app to app. Each one is marketing it's claim as the market leader, secretly hoping their claims are adopted. As usual, technology has brought complexity to the patients, and our patients are spastically grasping at a number of hyped solutions that for now are causing more disillusionment than empowerment. Does that mean give up? Absolutely not. Each health system is striving to develop the integration points for patient data to deliver the best empowered experience for the technology platform each patient has available. It is just going to take vision, and lots of time and effort to make it happen.

  • Mak - 9 years ago

    Patient Portals do empower patients that wish to take advantage of the information at their disposal. Once health care providers learn to trust patients and place the FULL documentation of their visits on the portal, the true empowerment will occur. Come on people -- it's time!

  • RebelNurse - 9 years ago

    I think the potential to empower patients is there, i.e., making their medical record more accessible to them as well as other family members who may be unable to participate in their loved ones health care first hand.

  • Greg Park - 9 years ago

    Technology has permitted for empowerment, but not everyone is taking advantage of this.

    This is a learning curve. The technology will continue to get better and the patients will increasingly become empowered users.

  • Glen - 9 years ago

    People are empowered by being treated as more powerful. Look at raw personal health data. It is not meant for patient consumption. Nor are medical bills, making a farce of consumer market-driven choices.

    More often it is self-empowerment, such as educating oneself to get beneficial meaning out of the current data sources.

    Education is key. Health technology is not delivering that as well as it could.

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