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The new study of The Medical Futurist Institute published in the BMJ

What should a patient share in an e-mail with their doctor? What are the most reliable online medical sources? Which wearables or health sensors are worth recommending? As many people Google their symptoms, start using technologies for health-related issues and communicate with providers via digital means, we summarize the most frequently asked patient questions and the physicians’ potential responses in our Guide To Ask Me About Digital. By reading it, you can confidently use the Ask Me About Digital badge and navigate through questions of digital health.

There’s nothing new about an information-savvy patient. The novelty is the array of digital technologies and internet-based communication tools aiming at appeasing that appetite beyond […]

We must all have experienced the features of being a cyberchondriac every once in a while: you wake up with a headache, you feel dizzy […]

The ultimate goal of the Ask Me About Digital initiative is to facilitate the doctor-patient communication through the power of technologies. Nowadays, if someone is diagnosed […]

The idea of a one-pager skill-set called “Patient CV” created by a chronic patient for her future doctors generated quite a buzz lately on Twitter. […]

Digital Health is a cultural transformation, not just a set of new technologies. Written by e-Patient Dave deBronkart and Dr. Bertalan Meskó.

The shooting of 2001: A Space Odyssey began fifty-two years ago, on 29 December 1965, but it still looks modern and believable. One of the […]

I have attended more than 400 conferences that were devoted to medicine and healthcare, and I can count the great ones on one hand. Terribly […]

Advanced medical technologies, disruptive innovations hand-in-hand with people willing to change will transform traditional healthcare into a modern healthcare system fit for the 21st century, […]

Diabetes is an adamant condition requiring constant attention. Let me show you how technology can take the burden off the shoulders of suffering patients and their […]

The elderly might often get the impression that technological revolution takes only the young and capable into account. There might be some truth to it […]

There are already terrabytes of data online and sometimes it is difficult to differentiate among true/false and relevant/irrelevant data. Although doing so is especially important in […]

Diabetes is a lifelong condition with no cure. It requires constant attention from the patient and his or her environment. Now, artificial pancreas is coming into the […]

It’s fascinating to witness how disruptive innovations can truly change the way healthcare is delivered and medicine is practiced. Enormous technological changes are heading our way […]