The purpose of this assignment is to critically examine consumerism’s impact on health care delivery, focusing on a patient-centered approach enabled by wearable devices, patient portals, and the evolving landscape of patient access to personal wellness information. Choose a product, wearable device, patient access portal application, or other new technology being introduced into health care that will help you answer the following prompts in the assignment.
Discuss the following points based on your choice of a new technology you imagine may be frequently used in the next five years in a 1,000–1,200-word essay that addresses the following:
- Describe the concept of consumerism in health care according to your selected technology, discussing how patients have transitioned from passive recipients of information to active consumers of their own health data. Discuss how “consumerism” influences the role of health care information technology for patients.
- Discuss the anticipated pros, cons, and other challenges related to adopting your described technology.
- Propose ethical and fiscal solutions to overcome the presented challenges to ensure your selected technology does not price the consumer out of the option to participate in the use of this technology. Consider the Christian worldview principles of service, love, compassion, and generosity in your response.
You are required to use two qualified references in addition to your textbook for this paper.