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Hopefully, One Day the Customer will know Best!

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Healthcare Evolution: From Clinical Trust to Self-Driven Care in a Digital Age While having a trusting relationship with a clinical professional remains central to health care, since the pandemic there are clear signs that people are more interested in their health and looking at ways to confidently manage and support themselves, without always needing to seek advice. Many apps support this wish, so now for many, consumerism is coming to health care, in a parallel way to how banking apps have changed the way people handle their finances. When they arrived people feared the loss of privacy and security. Now they are normal practice and writing a cheque is almost obsolete. Will people feel the same managing there own health data? The signs are good. People question and challenge clinicians more, using curated clinical tools and there own self collected data. Post pandemic, virtual visits, especially for routine checks are far more common. But whole scale acceptance of a consumer driven ...

Full Lifecycle Health Management: The Rise of Digital Self-Care

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  In the realm of sustainable practices, the concept of full lifecycle management has long been applied to products and energy carriers. This approach involves considering every stage of their existence, from extraction to disposal, to assess environmental impact and optimize cost-effectiveness. Drawing inspiration from this, we can extend the principles of full lifecycle management to human health. By adopting a comprehensive approach that encompasses prevention, early intervention, ongoing monitoring, and holistic well-being, digital self-care technologies are emerging as a cost-effective, fine and customized service alternative to optimize health outcomes and improve the quality of life at low cost. Understanding the Concept of Full Health Lifecycle Management As early as 1931, the concept of product life cycles and the need to manage them emerged. In 1957, an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton proposed a five-step life cycle model, starting with introduction, followed by growth, m...