The key to success in the age of the digital patient is to think about the patient as being at the center of the health care and communication network and to design solutions to make it easier for them to participate in their own health care.
3. Understanding the digital patient and
enabling them to become actively and
appropriately involved in achieving
better health care outcomes must
become a new priority for the health
care industry.
Digital Patient
4.
5.
6. Google Play (Android)
App Store
> 50% of healthcare apps receive
less than 500 downloads
5 apps account for 15% of
estimated 660 million downloads
in this category
Source: Patient Apps for Improved Healthcare: From Novelty to Mainstream. Report by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics