I often speak to healthcare associations and this past fall I gave the keynote presentation at a Verizon and Alcatel-Lucent conference on the future of wireless technology for the healthcare industry.
Perhaps, not surprisingly, a key theme I emphasized was wireless technologies ability to fundamentally alter how certain services are provided and, in the process, drive down costs.
To this end, I’d like to share two articles from today’s new that reiterate these points in spades. The first article, ”Remote Monitoring of the Heart,” is from Technology Review and it discusses how new wireless sensors when combined with the cellphone can radically reduce the number of hospitalizations which occur due to heart failure. According to one doctor the technology ”could save $20 billion in hospitalizations each year.”
The second article, ”Mobile Clinical Imagining On a Smart Phone,” highlights how innovative researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to using off-the-shelf technology to convert a smartphone into an imaging device. The potential to quickly and inexpensively scan a patient’s kidney, liver, bladder or almost any other body part from remote distances is quite amazing. The ability for professionals in rural areas to be trained in how to use this technology could reduce the need (and the cost) for many patients to travel to urban clinics or hospitals for evaluation.
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