September 2 nd
Wireless Healthcare: Giving You That Feeling Of Always Being Connected to Your Doctor
Connectedness by Ayesha Hilton
Cutting the Chord (Click here for video.)
When you’re sick, you’re sick. And for many people being sick brings with it a powerful desire to be in close touch with your doctor until you feel well.
If YOU don’t have that desire – or maybe especially because you don’t – your family members are likely to have it twice as bad FOR YOU.
Well, mobile medical technologies are poised to make a much stronger link between you and your healthcare providers lot more possible than you might ever have imagined. Wireless healthcare devices and systems can make it downright simple for you to be monitored in all kinds of ways from well outside the walls of doctor’s offices and hospitals.
In case you missed it, this tight, meaty conversation took place on August 28, 2009, on CNBC, between Hewlett Packard’s Executive VP of the Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs, and Dr. Eric Topol, Scripps Health Chief Academic Officer. The focus is wireless healthcare and mobile medicine initiatives that the big boys have been readying for market even while the economy has been languishing.
So, how would you like to be feeling better connected to your healthcare team? And in what ways?
Dreaming is about to be believing… Take a look: Cutting the Chord (Click here for video.)
