Why Is It Important, and What Could It Mean for Patients and Providers?
“We are now at the cusp of the digital age of medicine – a time when pertinent data, previously locked away in a handwritten medical record or paper logbook, can be collected, aggregated, and analyzed at virtually the speed of light, and when novel, continuously gathered sensor data can be tracked, collated, summarized, and personalized.” – Moving From Digitalization to Digitization in Cardiovascular Care, Drs. Steven Steinhubl & Eric Topol
In an article published in September 2015 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Dr. Steven Steinhubl, Director of Digital Medicine at the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI), and Dr. Eric Topol, Director of STSI, review the evidence supporting where digitization can potentially have the greatest impact, and provide a vision for what this could mean for both patients and providers.