>> Telematics helps the patient right from the start when choosing a doctor they trust. The same thing happens with every referral to a specialist in a “new” specialty or with a hospital admission. Special portals, especially those of health insurance companies, create transparency about other patients' assessments of established doctors and the quality of clinics. This knowledge should give the patient increased security and thus contribute to their well-being. He can also find out about medical networks and any special services they may offer in his region and can therefore seek out a doctor at an early stage who can guarantee communication with colleagues from other disciplines or adherence to cross-disciplinary guidelines.
Telematics alone does nothing. When we talk about concrete benefits, we have to pay attention to effects in which telematics helps diagnostic and therapeutic processes become more effective and efficient. We had also already established in this series that the type and extent of a sensible use of telematics depends on the indication or indications of the patient. Given the number of possible indications or combinations of indications that medicine knows, it is now completely impossible to treat them all systematically here. We have therefore chosen the approach of presenting some effects as examples in the hope of being able to generate most types of benefits through recombination.
Let's start with therapy. As a rule, the patient will not control the therapy of his illness alone, but will make his contribution to the management within the framework of the therapy corridors given by his doctor - his doctors - a sick person is not autonomous. Nevertheless, as Gigerenzer and Gray say, as a citizen he has the right to know the basic facts of diagnosis and treatment, and he has his own responsibility to make decisions about his health based on the best available evidence.
Here's an example:

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