My Insights are:
Times are changing. With innovations in information technology (IT), transforming health care through IT will result in significant cost savings to governments, insurers, and individuals over the long term as well as reduce stress on economies and workforces. It will provide opportunities for people to keep records of their own health.
Many inequalities exist in access to health care services with up-to-date IT developments (lack of available services to the public in developing nations and access limitations due to price inequalities in developed nations) and this is one of the biggest problems... how to effectively introduce IT innovations in a cost-efficient manner so that there is improved access to all. Another problem is that there needs to be global collaboration with the increase of more public-private parterships.
Graphical References:
Thermography as a way to diagnose breast cancer. It uses colorful imaging sensors to display areas where cancer could or is developing. Also the picture at right is a before (L) and after (R) of a hair restoration treatment at the Hair Restore Japan Contest in Tokyo.
Inspiration Quote:
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971
Times are changing. With innovations in information technology (IT), transforming health care through IT will result in significant cost savings to governments, insurers, and individuals over the long term as well as reduce stress on economies and workforces. It will provide opportunities for people to keep records of their own health.
Many inequalities exist in access to health care services with up-to-date IT developments (lack of available services to the public in developing nations and access limitations due to price inequalities in developed nations) and this is one of the biggest problems... how to effectively introduce IT innovations in a cost-efficient manner so that there is improved access to all. Another problem is that there needs to be global collaboration with the increase of more public-private parterships.
Graphical References:
Thermography as a way to diagnose breast cancer. It uses colorful imaging sensors to display areas where cancer could or is developing. Also the picture at right is a before (L) and after (R) of a hair restoration treatment at the Hair Restore Japan Contest in Tokyo.
Inspiration Quote:
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971
1 comment:
You made a good point in this entry. The government can only do so much to provide health care, I think ultimately a more educated public itself will lead to a more healthy society.
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