Patient-Centric Technologies

Abstract

Technology plays a crucial role in all fields of life, including providing healthcare services to the population. Moreover, it is ever-evolving and dynamic in nature. Every day, there is news about the development of new healthcare technology, which claims it is more effective than the previous one.

Healthcare professionals must remain updated and current with technological developments in their field to serve their clients, including the patients, effectively. Some patients are more technologically adept than others; technological resources should be simple to locate and user-friendly, so patients are motivated to engage in self-care management (1). There are multiple stakeholders involved during the various stages of development, marketing, utilization of technologies in Health. They include inventors, entrepreneurs, the personnel involved in mass production/ marketing, government machinery, etc. Nevertheless, the most important stakeholder is the final consumer or user, a patient, or an ordinary person. Unfortunately, these end-users, especially patients, are often taken for granted. There is a definite need for patient-centric technology in healthcare. To go one step ahead, one should strive for human-centric technology.