title: The quantified patient of the future: Opportunities and challenges.
abstract: The healthcare system is undergoing rapid transformation as national policies increase patient access, reward positive health outcomes, and push for an end to the current era of episodic care. Advances in health sensors are rapidly moving diagnostic and monitoring capabilities into consumer products, enabling new care models. Although hospitals and health care providers have been slow to embrace novel health technologies, such innovations may help meet mounting pressure to provide timely, high quality, and low-cost care to large populations. This leading edge perspective focuses on the quantified-self movement and highlights the opportunities and challenges for patients, providers, and researchers.
authors.affiliation: Healthcare Transformation Lab, Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States. Electronic address: mmajmudar@partners.org.
authors.forename: Maulik D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Majmudar
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States.
authors.forename: Lina Avancini
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Colucci
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women׳s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
authors.forename: Adam B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Landman
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005544:Forecasting; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006282:Health Personnel; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States
keywords: Digital health; Healthcare innovation; Patient-centered care; Quantified patient; Quantified-self; Wearables