Foster Kenneth R, Callans David J
IEEE Pulse. 2017 Nov-Dec;8(6):34-39. doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2017.2750783.
"The future of medicine is in your smartphone," proclaimed an eminent medical researcher in a 2015 Wall Street Journal essay. In a sense, that future has already arrived, judging from the proliferation of apps and medical devices now connected to smartphones. One 2015 industry study identified more than 165,000 health-related smartphone apps available from the Google Play Store and Apple iTunes. But to what extent does this technology lead to improved patient outcomes? That question is one for evidence-based medicine, to be answered by clinical trials and systematic reviews by medical experts.
一位著名医学研究人员在2015年《华尔街日报》的一篇文章中宣称:“医学的未来就在你的智能手机里。”从现在与智能手机相连的应用程序和医疗设备的激增情况来看,在某种意义上,那个未来已然到来。2015年的一项行业研究发现,谷歌应用商店和苹果iTunes上有超过16.5万款与健康相关的智能手机应用程序。但这项技术在多大程度上能带来更好的患者治疗效果呢?这个问题属于循证医学范畴,要由临床试验和医学专家的系统评价来回答。