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Digital innovations have now made it possible for consumers to use portable devices to access their medical information, monitor their vital signs, take tests at home and carry out a wide range of tasks

We can remotely and continuously monitor each heart beat, moment-to-moment blood pressure readings, the rate and depth of breathing, body temperature, oxygen concentration in the blood, glucose, brain waves, activity, mood – all the things that make us tick.

The Internet has become a main source of medical information

Healthcare facilities are reaching patients using social media

Better treatment and less suffering

Radio and television changed politics perhaps more than the telephone and the internet have even to date.  Before FDR's fireside chats, it's hard for us to understand that almost nobody knew what Herbert Hoover sounded like.  You could seek out a message from him in a newspaper, but he couldn't reach you proactively.  The famous Kennedy-Nixon debate was the one where the radio audience felt that Nixon had handily won the debate.  The TV audience saw Nixon with sweat on his face and no makeup on, and thought he had collapsed miserably in comparison with the suave, telegenic Senator Kennedy - many think TV got JFK elected.  Many have observed that in an age of TV we almost certainly would not elect a man as ungainly as Abraham Lincoln or as portly as William Howard Taft.

One of the biggest examples of the effects of social media during this election is in the presidential debates. In the past, debates were somewhat downplayed, and people thought that it ultimately could not sway the results of an election.

spreading the word in the age of the internet is infinitely easier than it was ten years ago

people can tweet, post status updates, or send friends messages instantly to say what they feel about the presidential debate.