In-Depth: Providers’ inevitable acceptance of patient generated health data

In-Depth: Providers’ inevitable acceptance of patient generated health data

Mobihealth News – Four years ago a keynote speaker at the American Medical Informatics Association meeting in Washington D.C. made a provocative prediction about the near-future importance of patient generated health data:

“I think it’s not that bold to say that in five years the kind of things I was showing you are going to put us in a position where the vast majority of information that a doctor might use to determine how a patient is doing will be things that are collected outside of that doctor’s office,” Gregory Abowd, Distinguished Professor, School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech, told AMIA 2011 attendees. ”The technologies of ubiquitous computing are very well positioned to make this a reality… you need to recognize that this transition is going to happen, and — it’s OK to handle the problem of electronic medical record deployments in family physicians across the US and the health information exchange channels that reside there — but do not forget the point that much of the data that might be relevant to the medical record of an individual is going to be accumulated in their homes and elsewhere.”