One Doctor Explains Why The Internet Hasn't Really Changed Medicine

Venture Beat:

So how do we start to deliver on the outrageously great and transformational potential that personalized digital medicine holds? We think it starts with that first point of contact. We need to get everyone connected--at least once--to the digital health ecosystem.

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Comments

[No death panels]

11:13 PM on 04/26/2012

Malpractice lawyers are salivating.

[donnieb]

10:46 PM on 04/26/2012

Actually internet changed my vision on the medicine a lot. Before internet i had my suspicions but internet cemented my opinion about medical field. Its not designed to help its designed to sell medicine to public and in my opinion its just white collar organized crime

[Just Don]

10:18 PM on 04/26/2012

Kind of a stupid headline -- especially since the article goes on to explain endless medical things that have been helped by the internet. Go figure.

[mdonaldwil]

09:14 PM on 04/26/2012

Yes It has; because I always double-check every prescription given to me or a relative; before it is filled.
Lots of medicines passed by the FDA fix one problem; but give you ten other problems.