Even before social distancing disrupted normative expectations and prompted an immediate
shift to remote doctor/patient interactions, technology companies—Amazon, Apple, and …

The revolution in technology and the rapid pace of technological innovation are facts of life.
Although we have all been frustrated with technology and may empathize with Dr Samsa's …

Electronic health records. Smart phones. Near-uni-versal broad-band Internet access.
Asynchronous communication. Electronic visits. Telemedicine. Patient-centered primary …

A growing number of Americans will soon have a Web-based personal medical home with
connectedness to their chosen providers of care. The personal health record will become …

Confucius Arecent survey of UK GPs revealed that most were sceptical about the potential
for technology to perform as well as or better than humans in such core medical skills as …

Today, medical students look at how family medicine is delivered, and they run the other
way. That is not how they want to spend their careers. The idea of being a personal …

An emerging vision for primary care calls for the adoption of information technology and a
strong business model to save a dying health care system. The authors are participants in …

Health information technology (health IT) and health technology, more broadly, offer
tremendous promise for connecting, synthesizing, and sharing information critical to …

EDITORIALS conversely, mistrust those who are not is an important issue to address early
and often. Effective patient care is based on mutual trust. Requiring that patients prove that …

Recently, a medical consulting group published," The disruption of primary care: How
customer-obsessed companies are changing everything."(1) The essay paints a not-too-rosy …