Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of healthcare

2009-10-11 Thread Nathaniel Flick
I work in the medical software space. The biggest problem is not how to display the information (UI, etc.; socially or cloud etc.) but how to convert all the static data out there into one format. I don't think governments can mandate it. I don't think it's going to ever happen because there are t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of healthcare

2009-10-08 Thread Shaun Bergmann
There's no doubt that we already have much of the technologies to realize this goal. There's also no doubt that if we were to incorporate such a wide-reaching assimilation of health data into such a tightly woven network, that the health of each individual would be on the climb. One doesn't have

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The future of healthcare

2009-10-08 Thread David Shaw
The potential to be game changing is the most exciting part about this space (full disclosure, I work in this space). But, the reality is that the industry as a whole is not yet ready for such a dramatic change. It could be a fairly long time out before we see any real changes even though the tec

[IxDA Discuss] The future of healthcare

2009-10-08 Thread Charusmitha Ram
I’m not sure if I like all their ideas but some of these have great potential. The portable/ accessible aspect of data in a unified system certainly opens up a lot of possibilities. http://www.fastcompany.com/future-of-health-care -- -- Sm