Table 1.

Differences between traditional and digital healthcare.

Traditional healthcare	Digital healthcare
Direct patient-physician relationships	Patient-machine-physician interface
Standardized care based on physician experience and standard clinical workflow: Symptoms, clinical signs, ancillary medical tests, diagnosis, and treatment plan	Individualized care, precision medicine, with non-traditional workflow: Mass screening, early preclinical or asymptomatic diagnosis, diagnosis based on probability, predictive technology, and decision support for physicians
Point of care delivery or examination is at the clinic or lab	Point of care delivery or examination may vary as long as patient is present
Data owned by the institutions/hospitals	Data owned and shared by multiple stakeholders, including the patient
Physician as the central player who makes diagnosis, and prescribes treatment plan	Physician as a consultant, guide or collaborator with the patient’s active contribution in the decision making

The table is based on Meskó et al. (23), with adaptations from the authors.