The future of healthcare?
This is just a brief post about a current Business Week article, Designing the 'Care' into Healthcare.It's a short read that outlines the ways in which healthcare may change in the future.
What's interesting to me is that a lot of the things mentioned in the Empowerment through Internet Technologies part of the article are already available.
For social networking look at the success of the excellent TuDiabetes.com site. I see a lot of members that are thrilled to find others with diabetes and that are actually learning about better ways to treat the disease and are getting lots of support from others.
For Twitter and updates via e-mail, you can look at the wonderful SugarStats.com site that lets you track blood sugars and other things related to diabetes care by sending messages via e-mail, SMS or Twitter.
From my perspective there are many ways to improve care for chronic illnesses. But thanks to the internet and the work of some great people the future is looking a lot better for many of us who work hard to have normal lives despite our imperfect bodies.
Labels: healthcare, nablopomo, technology
posted by Bernard @ 10:59 AM
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Speaking of diabetes and technology, I wondered if you received this month's Diabetes Forecast, by the ADA. One of the first articles is about the effectiveness of SMBG in non-insulin requiring PWDs. It totally reverses Richard Kahn's speach. Can we say Damage Control.
I'm staying angry until I actually see Kahn publicly take back his stance on diabetes technology.
Hopefully, something will change with the out of controll premiums. There are a lot of elderly and fixed income people who can not afford their medicare due to this problem and all the big insurance companies just sit back and collect the money.
That's why AARP has set up http://www.thisissoridiculous.com so that we can sign a petition to make our voice heard. They also offer updated news, videos and the opportunity to e-mail your congressman to let him know how you feel. I’m working to help AARP promote better Medicare. This is an important issue in the US right now and we cant let it get any more out of hand than it already has.
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