How Will Technology Impact Preventative Care? (0:53)
Wireless monitoring will play a big part in healthcare systems of the future. In this video, HealthMaker Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, explains how this is a part of prevention and will help in the efforts to improve our systems.
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But I think the idea of wireless monitoring of people especially people of chronic illness, being able to intervene in real time, those are going to be the way for the future and I think we're going to see a whole slew of innovation and technologies around there, how to monitor people when they're in their everyday life and being able to detect early problems and intervene well before they would otherwise have come to medical attention in the old system and allowing us to sort of nip a problem in the bud before the patient has too much fluid and has congestive heart failure and requires and requires a hospitalization and as I said that's the way for the future.
That is prevention, preventing people from getting too sick that they need hospitalization, that is how we're going to improve the quality of care and reduce the cost.
Ezekiel Emanuel is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, professor at the Diane and Robert Levy University, and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a breast oncologist.
