@Alison- Fair enough. I guess my recent experience with my knee injury has colored my opinions. The doctors who touched my knee got the diagnosis right. The ones that read the MRI but never touched me, got it wrong. But...
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I hear you about 'patients' seeking controlled or abused substances -- and most (if not all) telemedicine organizations I've spoken to refuse to prescribe narcotics or other medications commonly abused (like sleeping pills...
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"Anyhow, especially with IBM and Apple are teaming up, I'm not sure it's so outlandish to imagine accessing sensitive databases on Apple devices. Android might be a different story." @Michael: I think that may just be a...
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Others I definitly see the educational values...others are simply too creepy (bugs in my brain? Really?) I thought that too, then I reminded my self that the alternative is to have them cut off the top of my skull, use...
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@tzubair- Fair point on maintenence. I would hope you could around that by having some sort of shipping program where you send bad ones back on trucks and are replace dby good ones. But yes, it adds expense that has to be...
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That is interesting, Dave. We're already seeing more doctors becoming hospital staff as they get fed up with dealing with the changes from government, insurers, etc. As i mentioned in another comment, I think we'll also...
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@vnewman- Wow, that is a great description. I knew some of out ideas of drowing were wrong, but that really put it into ghastly perspective.I've seen our local water park do drills where they put dummies floating in the...
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True. And you can be a bad surgeon with or without a robot. Or a great one.
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Hmmm, i doubt it, although I suppose that's a risk. Seems to me there are clearcut cases where telemedicine works and there are clearcut places where it doesn't (where blood's involved!). As someone else mentioned here,...
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Audits are the best way to look into practices and see that the organisation is working as it should. I think making audits mandatory keeps mistakes to the minimal and catches it before it blows out of proportion. In most...
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@cafzali- i was at a presentaiton at HIMSS about the very topic of insurance and telemedicine. And for what it was worth, they did an informal show of hands in the room. They asked doctors if they would do a telemedicine...
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Breathe like this Ha! I suspect that the OB was just annoyed by the way you were breathing. I think the number one goal of the breath is to give you something else to think about. :)No, I'm not breathing expert, but I'm...
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@Alison- I wonder about that, too. I suspect it will probably focus the efforts a bit which isn't a bad thing. One of the things about robots in surgery is that they are just plain cool. But they aren't necessarily fot for...
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@Alison- I think that's great. The one thing i worry about with telemedicine is that despite best intentions it will create two classes of medicine-- the people who can afford to be seen in perosn and the people who only...
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@sferguson10001- It depends on your definition of "robot." The robot numbers include telepresence and robotic surgery devices. Telepresence is where the most money is being spent. Finding a way to expand the time on task...
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I'd think it would be very difficult for the state or even federal government to force a Bitcoin exchange based offshore to comply with a registration requirement or much else. Maybe they can entice some that want to legitimize...
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If the survey is mean to gather opinions from social network customers, they should have polled the advertisers. We users are just the inventory.
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Hey Dave, Very informative article, I will say that I've always tought that the effort involve in human care is something that robots couldn't replace, but the break down you've provided actually does help, I mean when...
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At that point, why not just get a MacBook Air? I guess I like my tablet to fit in my coat pocket. But everybody's different.
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I might be wrong, but I suspect Pinterest fares better partly because it has a smaller, perhaps more self-selected, user base. More users means more opportunities for the service to alienate someone, and more users who sign...
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