Does connected health create more personal responsibility for patients?
Many chronic illnesses are tied directly to personal health choices, which is why it's important to encourage personal responsibility. In this video, HealthMaker Joseph Kvedar, MD talks about how connected health helps achieve this goal.
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Health is so abstract. If I walk another 2,500 steps today,
I might avoid some aspect of a heart attack 10 years down the line. That's very abstract. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, I would say we really do believe that you should be, in large part, in charge of your own health. We're in a different era now than we were in the '50s
and '60s, where most of your health care encounters were because you felt sick. We understand now that health is an ongoing responsibility.
And so much of getting chronically ill these days in our planet is really lifestyle related.
So in that way, it is your responsibility. The trick, I think, is to actually get it out of the realm of health.
Health is so abstract. If I walk another 2,500 steps today,
I might avoid some aspect of a heart attack 10 years down the line. That's very abstract. But I certainly don't want to look fat.
I want to look attractive. I want to look young. So if we translate it into those attributes
that people are eager for, that's where I think we can overcome some of the abstractness. And actually, yes, I think we can
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