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It’s beyond doubt that data is increasingly important in healthcare, but there is also a strong sense that doctors themselves are not very keen on it. I wrote last year, for instance, about a study exploring how doctors felt when patients brought their own data into consultations.

"We’ve heard doctors say more and more that people bring this data into the clinic and they’re just overwhelmed by it. When you’re managing chronic disease or symptoms, day-to-day lifestyle tracking data can be useful, but doctors don’t have a way to use these data efficiently and effectively," the authors say.

This perhaps goes some way to explaining a finding from a second paper, published earlier this year, suggesting that doctors themselves are often the main barriers against the digitization of patient records.

Source: DZone