Steven A Feyrer-Melk
Optimal Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center, USA
Title: The “30,000†Foot†View: Technology - Personalized care –Behavior Change
Biography
Biography: Steven A Feyrer-Melk
Abstract
A personalized medicine approach empowers patients and practitioners to collaborate on a path of optimal health. The advancements of health-related technologies are powerful and critical for “whole-person” care and real-world behavior change. Moreover, in the quest to remain at the cutting-edge, practitioners must recognize and properly incorporate lifestyle medicine technologies within a systems-oriented model. Therefore, to effectively leverage technology for the enhancement of patient health, a big picture overview must first be understood. This “30,000 feet” view of key technologies offers the practitioner an understanding of where we are now, what trends we can expect, and where we are going in the future. More importantly, it is imperative that we understand how these factors impact the patient, the clinician and the practice when it comes to truly personalized medicine