Episode 10. The Digital Society

Healthcare in the US is becoming increasingly digitized. Mobile health or mHealth is a rapidly expanding area, where cell phone apps and wireless devices with sensors collect a person's health data. Hospitals are moving away from paper records. At UNC for example, your electronic records can be accessed by the doctor treating you, or by yourself if you log onto myChart. It's now possible for doctors to issue electronic prescriptions, and it might not just be possible, but mandatory. As of March, New York is the first state to not only ban paper prescriptions, but penalize any doctors that use them. So where is this all heading? What is a possible future for our healthcare in the context of technology? To answer this question, we looked overseas to a small Baltic country that is so tech savvy, it has been nicknamed "The Digital Society", Estonia. To do this, we had the help of Elle Law who is half Estonian and holds dual citizenship in the US and Estonia. Law is also a UNC alum and her main interest is public health in the context of globalization and systems. She reached out to us about producing this episode while in Estonia this fall. --- Public Health Behind the Scenes is a podcast featuring stories and public health perspectives on the issues that affect our lives. Show notes available at --- The show was created and produced by: Naya Villarreal, Program Coordinator, Gillings Global Gateway TM , UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Jessica Southwell, Practice & Policy Analyst, North Carolina Institute for Public Health , UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Jennie Saia, Public Communications Specialist, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Branson Moore, Web Communications Specialist, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Natalie Smith, Master of Science student, Department of Biostatistics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Sound support provided by Ben Davis and Gillings School IIS Visual identity created by Ross Pike

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This episode was published on Nov 23, 2016.

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