How to reduce health care costs.

[swampy]

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.

[$tevie]

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.

[cbelt3]

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...

[Manlove]

iMedicine

[Ted King]

Cool. Thanks for posting that. I kept thinking "iPhone as medical tricorder" (Star Trek).

[$tevie]

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. :-)

[$tevie]

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/archiv...ta/254215/

[swampy]

$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.

[$tevie]

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.

[cbelt3]

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.