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from Section 5 - Transforming Medicine
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2025
The rapid development of information and communication technologies since the 1990s has had far-reaching impacts on health behaviours and healthcare. There are many opportunities for Lifestyle Medicine. The Gartner Hype Cycle offers a useful model to understand the adoption stages of technologies such as wearable activity trackers and telemedicine in Lifestyle Medicine. Technology can enhance mental wellbeing, social connections, physical activity, healthy eating, sleep quality, and harm reduction.
However, technology use also poses risks, such as encouraging sedentary behaviours, social isolation, and digital exclusion. Data analysis in technology can be challenging, and ensuring cybersecurity and commercial surveillance protection is essential. Technology can help deliver personalised interventions that match patient needs. Technology can also provide holistic health support to patients beyond traditional consultations.
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