Consideration of the Organizational and Personal Digital Health Managers of the Future

In a recent note (see:What Is Digital Health and How Does a Health System Get There?), I began a discussion about the medical information systems of the future which I am callingdigital health managers. This note was grounded in the"what" question of digital health. In today's note, I want to explore the"how" question. In my opinion, there will be two separate but interconnected digital health platforms:the personal health manager(PHM) and theorganizational health manager(OHM).PHMs will resemble the current Apple health ecosystem (see:Using the Apple Ecosystem to Support Health Research and Clinical Trials) consisting of an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and various diagnostic devices that can connect with the iPhone such asOmron Evolv Bluetooth Wireless Blood Pressure monitor and ECG monitors such as the six-lead KardiaMobile 6L. Progress in the development of PHMs has been relatively rapid because a company like Apple is not dependent on the permission of EHR vendors nor healthcare executives to proceed with product development.My vision of the OHM of the future is cloudy because there are no extant systems. It's also not clear how potential OHM manufacturers will deploy their prototypes in hospitals. However, I am confident that some health system executives, dissatisfied with current and future EHR performance, will volunteer to act as test beds for early prototypes. You may also ask, will today's EHRs evolve into the OHMs ...
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