High-Tech Alternatives to High-Cost Care
MENTION health care reform and the image that instantly comes to mind is a big government program. But there is another broad transformation in health care under way, a powerful force for decentralized innovation. It is fueled in good part by technology — low-cost computing devices, digital sensors and the Web.
The trend promises to shift a lot of the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of disease from hospitals and specialized clinics, where treatment is expensive, to primary care physicians and patients themselves — at far less cost.
This seems a natural progression given the advances being made in technology and medicine: the focus being more on prevention and early detection will certainly reduce long-term medical costs in the US.
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