JOHN LEKAKIS
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
Digital Medicine. The Medicine in the future
Digital Medicine is an exciting new field which uses new informatics technology and genome technology for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. Specialties like cardiology, diabetology, psychiatry, pneumonology, eye diseases etc, use digital tools for the improvement of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment.
Telehealth, artificial intelligence, mHealth, personalized medicine are some of the tools used for digital medicine. Using new technology the cost will be reduced, communication between physician and patient will improve, and diagnostic problems will be reduced. Finally personalized medicine will help to reduce side effects and maximize treatment benefits.