Comments on: Medicine, IT, & Crowdsourcing http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/07/10/medicine-it-crowdsourcing/ Health, Fitness, Technology, and Other Interests Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:08:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brent http://brent.kearneys.ca/2009/07/10/medicine-it-crowdsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-659 Brent Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:28:21 +0000 http://brent.kearneys.ca/?p=1352#comment-659 This article outlines some emerging technologies and ideas that go along the same lines that I'm talking about: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17513-innovation-is-the-future-of-healthcare-online.html However, the issue of reforming the "sick care" mentality is not addressed. No matter how many gadgets you have, fundamental change won't occur until attitudes change from treatment to prevention. The technology can help to implement real preventative care, but I doubt that it can drive it. This article outlines some emerging technologies and ideas that go along the same lines that I’m talking about:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17513-innovation-is-the-future-of-healthcare-online.html

However, the issue of reforming the “sick care” mentality is not addressed. No matter how many gadgets you have, fundamental change won’t occur until attitudes change from treatment to prevention. The technology can help to implement real preventative care, but I doubt that it can drive it.

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