mHealth- Advances, Knowledge and Patient Engagement

The furture

"This opens up the promise of a new era of direct-to-consumer testing. Linking tests with solutions ― with help from doctors ― will reduce costs and enable patients to access more solutions, less-expensive solutions and more personalized solutions. Doctors - in person or via telemedicine - will interpret the results of tests and help steer patients to the right solutions. When applied to traditional health care delivery models, these new ecosystems could revolutionize the delivery of everything from primary care to chronic care .Direct-to-consumer testing with mobile consumer devices will eventually be the de facto way that we test.  Everywhere. The impetus for change is clearly there ― and it's already being championed by the consumer  .But the big win is not cost savings ― it's personalized medicine. Consumer-facing testing devices are the gateway to personalized medicine, because they can accrue data in a continual, contextual "