Digital Health Consumers on the Road to the Future

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 digi...

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Autor principal: Kukafka, Rita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2019
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Viewpoint
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6895867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31750835
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16359
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spelling pubmed-68958672020-03-04 Digital Health Consumers on the Road to the Future Kukafka, Rita J Med Internet Res Viewpoint 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. JMIR Publications 2019-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6895867/ /pubmed/31750835 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16359 Text en ©Rita Kukafka. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 21.11.2019. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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