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"The Paradigms are shared by many thinkers, there is time, space, opportunity, and a precise moment to contribute with our ideas" -Perla Gutierrez
The MIT Technology Review just released a document. A BUSINESS REPORT about;
The Big Question: Can Technology Fix Medicine?
Here some snippets that show you the amount of people that share our Vision
Medical data is a hot spot for venture investing and product
innovation. The goal: better care. 100,000 the number of health apps available
for smartphones.
“Much more precise medicine is possible. And I for one
want it. Because our smartphones are on us 24/7, we can
start to do much more.” —Vinod Khosla
More Phones, Fewer Doctors. VC legend Vinod Khosla believes that medicine
will go mobile and most
Doctors will be out of a job.
Data Analysis: IBM Aims to Make Medical Expertise a Commodity.
Big Blue thinks its Jeopardy! Champion Watson can make money by offering health-care
providers new expertise without hiring new staff.
“Physicians are too burdened on paperwork and
squeezed on revenue to keep up with the latest literature.”
—Lynda Chin Professor of Genomic Medicine, MD Anderson
Cancer Center
The New Medical Data Ecosystem:
Medical data is being captured today from many sources. Pulling
it together and studying what it means is the next challenge.
Environmental Data, Sensors can pick up behavioral information.
Mapping, location and weather data adds insight into other triggers
Mobile Health Data:
100,000-plus mobile health apps, plus wearable devices that
measure activity and bodily function, offer a constant read on patient health.
Electronic Medical Records:
Digital records include lab and test results, drug
prescriptions, and doctors’ reports
Family Health History:
Public Health Data, Insight into community, health patterns
from federal and state data
Genomic Data:
Less expensive genome, sequencing offers insight into the
role genetics may play
Insurance Claims Data:
Trends in drug and treatment usage, Analytic algorithms and
predictive modeling mine the layers of data for patterns and insight.
Patients:
More precise and personalized diagnosis and care based on a
holistic view
Doctors:
Decision support tools could help quickly evaluate the best
treatments
Researchers:
Detailed information from many patients, along with other
data, could lead to new insights into
Disease and treatment:
Mobile Health-Monitoring Devices
There’s been an explosion in smart devices that measure and
monitor various bodily functions.
Data in Action:
Data is helping one of the country’s leading hospitals solve
tough medical questions.
“I am concerned that it’s all too easy to see the data and
Say, ‘I've been doing big-data analysis for Target and now
I can do it for medicine.’ That turns out not to be true.
You really need to know something about medicine. If
Statistics lie, then big data can lie in a very, very big
way.”
$24.4 billion Federal incentives paid to doctors and
hospitals for adopting EHRs.
Google WEB SEARCH GIANT:
A new Android app platform is Google’s second attempt at
building a health business
Vital statistic: There are more than 40,000 health apps
available for Android phones, but only a handful have been downloaded by more
than 500 users
Verizon TELECOMMUNICATIONS Provides IT and telehealth
products for health-care companies
Vital statistic: $120.6 billion in revenues.
Here is the link to the whole report Data-Driven Healtcare or http://techre.vu/1yBPSOk
