Self-regulation key to the future of health care tech

There are tools that work and there are tools that do not, but it ’s important for the health care industry to decide what is required of these technologies for the future. And that means patients, physicians and developers working together. AMA Chief Executive Officer James L. Madara, MD, sat down with Matthew Holt of Health 2.0 at the annual conference yesterd ay to discuss the future of health care technology. On center-stage during the first day of the Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., Matthew Holt, co-chairman of Health 2.0, asked Dr. Madara about his past comments on digital health tools and what needs to be done so that they work in clinical practice to enhance patient care.Holt:The first thing that you said was that we have a bunch of remarkable tools already, which doctors are using … often there is at least dispute about the clinical efficacy of some of those tools. Is it fair to say that you ’re saying that stuff is all well and good or do you have any doubts, issues or problems with those?Dr. Madara: There are issues with all of these things, Matthew. The issue that I was trying to raise, by the way thank you for noticing, [is] that in the ‘do you love us, do you hate us’ … there is love in it. Let me give you an example of love and an example of hate. The love is thatphysicians want to engage digital health, [our survey demonstrates that]. And the reason they want to engage digital health is for better outcomes for patients and better wo...
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