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How to reduce health care costs. - swampy - 04-08-2013
I found this 8 minute video amazing. If this is our medical future, we need to jump on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=r13uYs7jglg
Think of how much money we could save in medical testing if these devices were implemented ASAP.
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - $tevie - 04-08-2013
I'm sorry to be silly on a serious thread, but at first I thought your headline was "How to reduce health care posts" and I was like That Would Be Very Cool.
As the wife of a heart patient, I find that story pretty exciting.
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - cbelt3 - 04-08-2013
No utube access.... any text descriptions ? I assume we're talking about some sort of implantable measurement system. That stuff is way cool tech. Heck.. heart monitors are cool tech...
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - Manlove - 04-08-2013
iMedicine
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - Ted King - 04-08-2013
Cool. Thanks for posting that. I kept thinking "iPhone as medical tricorder" (Star Trek).
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - $tevie - 04-08-2013
Ted King wrote:
Cool. Thanks for posting that. I kept thinking "iPhone as medical tricorder" (Star Trek).
My husband came over and starting imitating using a tricorder during the story. :-)
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - $tevie - 04-08-2013
cbelt3 wrote:
No utube access.... any text descriptions ? I assume we're talking about some sort of implantable measurement system. That stuff is way cool tech. Heck.. heart monitors are cool tech...
This isn't the Rock Center story but it has all the same information in it.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/03/destroying-medicine-to-rebuild-it-eric-topol-on-patients-using-data/254215/
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - swampy - 04-08-2013
$tevie, real time medical readings (heart, blood pressure, glucose count without a finger stick, even a live sonogram of the heart pumping) and share with your doctor in real time. Saving thousands of dollars on standard tests. Test any time, any where for just a couple hundred dollars for the device.
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - $tevie - 04-08-2013
The glucose count without a finger stick would be great for a couple of friends who never check their glucose. It's very worrisome to me because my brother-in-law died as a result of not monitoring himself.
Re: How to reduce health care costs. - cbelt3 - 04-08-2013
Ah. thanks. I love that. I actually worked on software to automatically read CT scans and provide guidance for brain cancer diagnoses. In 1974. Bioinformatics and automated detection of outlier conditions have existed for a LONG time. Consumerizing them is awesome.