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Professor Peeter Ross, who leads the e-Health Applications and Services Research Group within TalTech’s Centre of Excellence in Health and Food Technologies, says healthcare is increasingly moving towards self-service. People can do more themselves, from entering symptoms to monitoring health data and sending a photograph to a doctor. Photo: Karl-Kristjan Nigesen
Science
12.10.2026
TalTech professor: healthcare can learn from self-service checkouts
Just as we scan our own shopping and book flights and hotels ourselves, healthcare is increasingly moving towards self-service. TalTech Professor Peeter Ross believes people could collect and manage more of their own health data and receive advice before illness develops. Estonia is already taking its first steps in that direction.