Source: Big Think

Beyond search engines, technology companies are making a . The tools and innovations they develop could streamline the mapping of a patient’s upstream environment. For example, devices like smartphones and Fitbits may allow patients to generate their own health records, offering doctors a proactive, up-to-date account of a patient’s environment.
The growing ubiquity of such devices will also allow doctors to perform virtual health visits, giving them easy access to patients and their live-in environment.Finally, many health care professionals and organizations are heeding the upstreamist call to use their voices to…
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