How Consumers and Physicians View New Medical Technology: Comparative Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As a result of the digital revolution coming to medicine, a number of new tools are becoming available and are starting to be introduced in clinical practice.

Objective

We aim to assess health care professional and consumer attitudes toward new medical technology including smartphones, genetic testing, privacy, and patient-accessible electronic health records.

Methods

We performed a survey with 1406 health care providers and 1102 consumer responders.

Results

Consumers who completed the survey were more likely to prefer new technologies for a medical diagnosis (437/1102, 39.66%) compared with providers (194/1406, 13.80%; P<.001), with more providers (393/1406, 27.95%) than consumers (175/1102, 15.88%) reporting feeling uneasy about using technology fo

SUBMITTER: Boeldt DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4642377 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature