Digital Health Consumers on the Road to the Future

Rita Kukafka

doi:10.2196/16359

Digital Health Consumers on the Road to the Future

J Med Internet Res. 2019 Nov 21;21(11):e16359. doi: 10.2196/16359.

Author

Rita Kukafka^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
² Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.

PMID: 31750835
PMCID: PMC6895867
DOI: 10.2196/16359

Abstract

Digital health is uniquely positioned to transform health care. This viewpoint explores the enormous benefits for health consumers when digital-first health care is embraced. Also, it explores what risks exist if surveillance capitalism takes over health care. Further, some solutions to prepare digital health citizens for the road ahead are also discussed.

Keywords: artificial intelligence; digital health; health consumers; internet of things.

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence / standards*
Health Care Costs / standards*
Humans
Telemedicine / methods*