What is wireless health?

Wireless health entails maximizing wireless technologies to enable doctors -- and patients -- to share information seamlessly for more effective healthcare in real time, says Leslie Saxon, MD.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] You think about it, we have so many experts. People like me who finished training when they were in their 30s who then

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have 20 years of expertise. Why does someone have to seek me out in Los Angeles, or read a paper I wrote, or hear a talk I give to access me?

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For me, wireless health means utilizing wireless technologies to improve health care communication and outcomes.

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So when I say wireless health, if I want to tell a patient something and I want to tell and communicate things to patients all the time

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and they want to communicate things to me, why can't that be enabled through wireless communications.

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Whether it's mobile, whether it's a social network, whether it's me checking in on a group of patients with like conditions or one, leveraging my expertise

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across the world and across populations. If you think about it, we have so many experts. People like me who finished training

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when they were in their 30s who then have 20 years of expertise. Why does someone have to seek me out in Los Angeles,

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or read a paper I wrote, or hear a talk I give to access me? I'd like to be able to take all that time I've spent

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and leverage my expertise across populations. That's what doctors learn to do with each other's knowledge. You saw me in the hall earlier talking to a heart surgeon.

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I got a lot of information out of him and learning out of him in that conversation. We need to have hundreds of thousands

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of those daily between experts wirelessly, and we would have a pretty enriched, more advanced health care system and communication system than we have now.