In recent years, several social phenomena and innovations have raised the broader usage of technology in medicine. It is becoming increasingly popular to make a preliminary diagnosis using the Internet – aka “Dr. Google” or phone apps that allow us to consult our symptoms or manage some illnesses.
The first observable change is the attitude towards knowledge and information management. In the traditional model, the doctors, and before that, the medical students were forced to acquire all academic knowledge and memorize all details concerning symptoms, treatment, medication, etc.
Nowadays, the era of the Internet has turned everything upside down. Access to adequately organized medical resources, stored on the Internet, present in the scientific literature or collected on health accounts that individually describe each patient’s condition, is becoming more significant (Crawford et al., 2016).
Computers will not replace physicians, but they will become a regular part of the diagnosis process, consultation and treatment – this is the domain where the most innovative information may determine the success of the treatment (Crawford et al., 2016).
However, one more question arises: how will the personal relationship between the patient and the doctor change?
