newswatch.nationalgeographic.com — The above infographic, created for Top Masters in Healthcare by a design firm, gives a hint at some of the future medical technology we might encounter. Hopefully, on balance more lives will be saved than harmed.
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pictureattachedFeb 7, 2012
Now if only we could bring attention and require hospitals to fix the real problems of healthcare that we've ignored for many, many years...
IHI says 15 million instances of avoidable medical harm occur in the US every year. That's 40,000 per DAY.
2010 Inspector General Report found that 180,000 Medicare patients die each year due to preventable clinical errors. Medicare patients only make up 40% of the total hospital patients in the US. That means approximately 400,000 patients take a trip to the morgue instead of going home, and 3.5 to 4 million are seriously injured
rufiohoFeb 6, 2012
Hospital rooms make me nervous
rockguitardudeFeb 7, 2012
Robotic surgery is here today:
http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/products/davinci_surgical_system/
Closed AccountFeb 7, 2012
our docs in SC already have an app for ipad and iphone where they can get patient info and a live readout of the patients monitor anywhere on the hospital ground.
bestenemyFeb 7, 2012
People of the future will have tiny legs, because they'll be taken everywhere by fully automated vehicles. They'll have small hands because all of the manual work will be done by robots. They'll have very small stomachs, because the food will consist entirely out of nutritious pills. And they'll have huge heads spending all their time thinking how to earn money in order to afford those damn pills.
hillsfarFeb 7, 2012
How much will these hospitals charge? And will these hospitals use research paid for by private donations for cancer research and taxpayer dollars for other basic research, to charge patients an arm and a leg?