%0 Journal Article
%@ 1438-8871
%I JMIR Publications Inc.
%V 17
%N 9
%P e215
%T How Consumers and Physicians View New Medical Technology: Comparative Survey
%A Boeldt,Debra L
%A Wineinger,Nathan E
%A Waalen,Jill
%A Gollamudi,Shreya
%A Grossberg,Adam
%A Steinhubl,Steven R
%A McCollister-Slipp,Anna
%A Rogers,Marc A
%A Silvers,Carey
%A Topol,Eric J
%+ Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Health, The Scripps Research Institute, 3344 North Torrey Pines Ct, Suite 300, La Jolla, CA, 92037, United States, 1 858 554 5708, etopol@scripps.edu
%K digital revolution
%K healthcare
%K medical technology
%K physician and consumer attitudes
%K electronic health record
%K mobile health
%D 2015
%7 14.09.2015
%9 Original Paper
%J J Med Internet Res
%G English
%X Background: As a result of the digital revolution coming to medicine, a number of new tools are becoming available and are starting to be introduced in clinical practice. Objective: We aim to assess health care professional and consumer attitudes toward new medical technology including smartphones, genetic testing, privacy, and patient-accessible electronic health records. Methods: We performed a survey with 1406 health care providers and 1102 consumer responders. Results: Consumers who completed the survey were more likely to prefer new technologies for a medical diagnosis (437/1102, 39.66%) compared with providers (194/1406, 13.80%; P<.001), with more providers (393/1406, 27.95%) than consumers (175/1102, 15.88%) reporting feeling uneasy about using technology for a diagnosis. Both providers and consumers supported genetic testing for various purposes, with providers (1234/1406, 87.77%) being significantly more likely than consumers (806/1102, 73.14%) to support genetic testing when planning to have a baby (P<.001). Similarly, 91.68% (1289/1406) of providers and 81.22% (895/1102) of consumers supported diagnosing problems in a fetus (P<.001). Among providers, 90.33% (1270/1406) were concerned that patients would experience anxiety after accessing health records, and 81.95% (1149/1406) felt it would lead to requests for unnecessary medical evaluations, but only 34.30% (378/1102; P<.001) and 24.59% (271/1102; P<.001) of consumers expressed the same concerns, respectively. Physicians (137/827, 16.6%) reported less concern about the use of technology for diagnosis compared to medical students (21/235, 8.9%; P=.03) and also more frequently felt that patients owned their medical record (323/827, 39.1%; and 30/235, 12.8%, respectively; P<.001). Conclusions: Consumers and health professionals differ significantly and broadly in their views of emerging medical technology, with more enthusiasm and support expressed by consumers. 
%M 26369254
%R 10.2196/jmir.4456
%U http://www.jmir.org/2015/9/e215/
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.4456
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26369254