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terça-feira, setembro 20, 2005
There is not an iPod for the state of your health
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The most intriguing point came up during the Q&A period, when Brian Gillooly, editor-in-chief for events at InformationWeek, asked Hawley what he saw was as the technology most likely to change our lives.
Hawley responded that health care and wellness has the greatest potential to be improved by IT. Significantly, wellness could be improved by developing telemetry that monitors the body's condition continuously and reports back to a health-care professional.
"For all the neat things we've seen with E-mail, Web work, and iPods, there is not an iPod for the state of your health. You know more about the state of your car than you do about the state of your health," Hawley said. Doctors take a pinprick of blood occasionally and use that to diagnose our overall condition.
A large portion of American spending comes from treating preventable heart attacks, and even so, only a fraction of heart-attack sufferers receive adequate diagnosis and care, Hawley said. "Only a small fraction are even shown something as simple as a USA Today chart that says they're at risk and maybe they shouldn't hork down that next piece of Boston cream pie," Hawley said.
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InformationWeek Weblog: How IT Can Help You Live Longer
The most intriguing point came up during the Q&A period, when Brian Gillooly, editor-in-chief for events at InformationWeek, asked Hawley what he saw was as the technology most likely to change our lives.
Hawley responded that health care and wellness has the greatest potential to be improved by IT. Significantly, wellness could be improved by developing telemetry that monitors the body's condition continuously and reports back to a health-care professional.
"For all the neat things we've seen with E-mail, Web work, and iPods, there is not an iPod for the state of your health. You know more about the state of your car than you do about the state of your health," Hawley said. Doctors take a pinprick of blood occasionally and use that to diagnose our overall condition.
A large portion of American spending comes from treating preventable heart attacks, and even so, only a fraction of heart-attack sufferers receive adequate diagnosis and care, Hawley said. "Only a small fraction are even shown something as simple as a USA Today chart that says they're at risk and maybe they shouldn't hork down that next piece of Boston cream pie," Hawley said.
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InformationWeek Weblog: How IT Can Help You Live Longer
posted by CMT, 10:00 da manhã
