viendo como atienden algunos medicos casi diria que prefiero.... DOCTOR-SMARTPHONES Mobile phones are giving rise to a new class of clip-on diagnostic devices that could challenge doctors’ monopoly on diagnosing disease, not just errors in vision. Since doctors’ fees account for over 20 percent of U.S. health-care spending—and fully 3 percent of the country’s GDP on their own—such devices could potentially slash costs as well. EyeNetra has received more than $2 million in financing from the outspoken Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla, who last year antagonized doctors by calling what they do “witchcraft” and predicting that 80 percent of their work diagnosing and prescribing could be done by machines. Khosla’s investment fund is also backing several other similar ventures, including AliveCor (see “Your Heartbeat on an iPhone”), which sells a heart monitor that attaches to an iPhone, and Cellscope, a company developing a phone camera that could let parents diagnose a child’s ear infection (see “Parents Could Skip the Doctor’s Office with This Device”.) technologyreview/news/518891/when-smartphones-do-a-doctors-job/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-weekly-business&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20130913
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:58:55 +0000
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