Digital Technology for Patients – Am I a Person or Data?

Whilst appreciating the importance of developing a smart digital infrastructure that improves operations and clinical outcomes, in this presentation I would like to discuss how digital technology can be used with and by patients on a more personal level and how this affects their relationship with their health condition and with clinicians.
I often joke I am part automated; I wear two digitally enabled healthcare devices one that monitors levels in my body and one that adapts treatment as a result of the monitoring. They work well individually but are most useful working together. Both devices run continuously 24 hours a day and send results to a clinical team at my local hospital who can read the data and make an assessment on my health.
From an NHS perspective this saves time and resources, with less administration and fewer appointments. If successful and used proactively it should prevent people being admitted to hospital and developing further health complications. From a patient perspective it offers reassurance, enables a higher degree of self-monitoring and knowledge and promotes personal responsibility.
But is this the full story? How will we stop the patient losing their voice to the data produced by a machine? Does the data ever reflect life? Is it more difficult to develop a relationship with patients when the knowledge you have or them is data driven rather than person centred? Do we as patients set ourselves up to fail by using data driven and reported standards and targets to monitor, control and assess ourselves?
And if are depending on the data too much, how can we do things better?