Your new post is loading...
If you were to pick a major industry about to see an incredible amount of change, you might choose health care. Vinod Khosla, the venture capitalist, says technology could replace 80% of what doctors do within 10 years.
Via eMedToday
|
Rescooped by
Rémy TESTON
from mHealth- Advances, Knowledge and Patient Engagement
June 7, 2013 2:11 AM
|
Scoop.it!
Via eMedToday
Kei point
The key point is that health care is no longer a specialists’ domain. The availability of cheap medical devices, like handheld ultrasounds and mobile eye exam machines, means citizens can take health into their own hands. Embedded sensors, on tattoosand subcutaneous chips, will soon transmit live updates to doctors’ tablets.
"Doctors are being disrupted in a very big way," says Sparks & Honey founder Terry Young. "And it’s being driven by the fact that traditional types of medical approach, where you go to the doctor and there’s one person who knows everything, is shifting rapidly."
The future of medicine may be predictive, personalized, preventative, but I see technology as an enabler, not as the solution.The personalized part needs to include face-to-face engagement, even if it's via digital media.