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The End Of The Waiting Room?

GEoff Light
April 03, 2017

How telemedicine is set to change the healthcare industry.

 

 

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that growing rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes will increase global healthcare spending by 4 percent per year.

The industry has never needed innovation and efficiency more, particularly since formerly unprecedented wait times for physicians and specialists are now common.
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Mike Johns: Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere

Mike Johns University Of Michigan
September 25, 2014
”I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it,” said Jeanne Calment, who died of natural causes at age 122 as the oldest person on record in 1997.
 

While you can argue the actual number of wrinkles on her body, it’s more interesting to consider how Calment lived so far beyond average life expectancy when the vast majority of human lives are cut short by disease.
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A Robotic Companion for the Elderly?

August 13, 2014
Who’s going to check on mom? In the coming years, the answer may increasingly be a robotic — rather than human — caregiver.
 
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