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iDoctor: Could a Smartphone Be the Future of Medicine
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of NBC News
Posted: March 5th, 2013
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/50582822#50582822
One of the worlds top physicians, Dr. Eric Topol, has a prescription that could improve your familys health and make medical care cheaper the smartphone. Topol has long been one of the worlds foremost cardiologists. He has now become the foremost expert in the exploding field of wireless medicine, and this explosion, he says, is about to make our health care better and cheaper. He shows how simply his modified iphone produces a cardiogram for a patient. The device was approved by the FDA in December and is now sold to physicians for $199. Topol tells his patient he just saved a $100 technicians fee. [Topol:] These days im actually prescribing a lot more apps than I am medications. You can take the phone and make it a lab on a chip -- you can do blood tests, saliva tests, urine tests, all kinds of things. Actually I think it helps make the whole interaction much more intimate, because now Im sharing the results in realtime. Theres so much technology now that we could by using digital [infra]structure that exists today -- make the office visit an enjoyable thing. [Topol] had a reputation for brashness. He questioned the safety of the hugely profitable pain killer Vioxx and eventually forced it off the market.
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