RT @greengart: Apple ResearchKit: using huge iOS installed base to help medical researchers w/ larger sample sizes, better data, 2 way communication. Huge.
RT @polemitis: People are awesome. Just 7% of seniors recognize that Medicare is a subsidy. By: @mattyglesias http://www.vox.com/2015/3/1/8125785/insurance-subsidy-poll http://t.co/G401MZTHuG
RT @wagner_tim: agreed w/ @pmarca: insurance should be decoupled from companies - carrying about your job matters, medical care shouldn't be a ball&chain
RT @SuB8u: Wearables solving medical problems, for cheap.
Traditional -$3,000
Wearable-$249 sub. service
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/sleep-tracking-wearables/ http://t.co/DaN9oTXhp1
RT @NickTimiraos: As a share of GDP, Medicare spending will rise 25% over the next decade---all due to aging Boomers http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/up-front/posts/2015/01/26-health-spending-trajectories-sheiner
RT @prchovanec: 12. If you lived a 1970-quality life - same techs, same medical, same everything - I submit it would cost much less in 2015 than in 1970.
RT @prchovanec: 10. Or how about this as another measure of quality of life? Medical solutions today almost unimaginable in 1970s. http://t.co/0HZdkVAq6x
RT @Robert_Graboyes: PATIENT TAKES CENTER-STAGE/ Must-read by @EricTopol. Medicine's future, if we are willing. http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-future-of-medicine-is-in-your-smartphone-1420828632?mod=e2tw&autologin=y #innovation #healthIT #IT
RT @HansRosling: The lifespan of humans got 6 years longer since 1990; now World Life expectancy is 71.5 years http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)61682-2/abstract?elsca1=etoc&elsca2=email&elsca3=0140-6736_20150110_385_9963_&elsca4=Public%20Health%7CInfectious%20Diseases%7CHealth%20Policy%7CInternal%2FFamily%20Medicine%7CGeneral%20Surgery%7CLancet
RT @Robert_Graboyes: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF MEDICINE/ @EricTopol explores why health care #innovation lags IT. "We need a jailbreak." http://t.co/LDY14VPX5t
RT @jhagel: Fertile ground for further investigation - research into "male idiot theory" published in the British Medical Journal http://bit.ly/177ETns
RT @NickTimiraos: Law-enforcement estimates that fraud accounts for as much as 10% of Medicare’s yearly spending, or about $58 billion http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-its-so-hard-to-fix-medicare-fraud-1419559442
RT @cadwego: Half of Dr. Oz’s medical advice is baseless or wrong, study says - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/19/half-of-dr-ozs-medical-advice-is-baseless-or-wrong-study-says/
RT @SandyHendry: British Medical Journal asks whether low-fat products/diets are food industry's attempt at mass murder.
http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/349/bmj.g7654.full.pdf
RT @AlSaqqaf: Genome sequencing; was $100m, now $1K (Illumina)
Cholesterol lab test; was $50, now $2.99 (Theranos)
Interesting times ahead in medicine.
RT @Paul_Sonnier: Study: Text messages prevent 1 in 6 patients from failing to take medicine
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141205142424.htm HT @mhallsworth @pmarca #DigitalHealth
RT @mhallsworth: New study shows the power of text messages to improve medical adherence http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141205142424.htm?utm_source=feedburner #behaviourchange
RT @DLeonhardt: What seems to be behind the sharp slowdown in health costs? A changing medical system. @sangerkatz: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/upshot/good-news-inside-the-health-spending-numbers.html
RT @aarthir: This is a great piece on how 3D printing is revolutionizing medicine http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-thyself?currentPage=all
RT @SuB8u: Excellent piece on how 3D Printing is revolutionizing medicine. The pace of evolution of the tech is indeed awesome!
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/print-thyself
RT @moody: "Whiskey's a good medicine. It keeps your muscles tender," says *108-YEAR-OLD* WWII veteran. http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-oldest-veteran-drinks-whiskey-and-smokes-cigars-every-day-2014-11
RT @csoghoian: I am shocked that after appointing a cyber czar with no tech experience, the White House appointed an Ebola czar with no medical experience.
RT @pburford: I hope emergency medical services are on hand when Gene Munster reads this :)
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/philips-launches-television-range-with-apple-tv-features/article6484972.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
RT @JamesDeanTimes: Exclusive: Millions can now send personal health and fitness data from their iPhone directly to their medical records http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4229072.ece
RT @RHNilsson: Medical students experience procedures from surgeon’s perspective with Oculus Rift
@nisummers
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/08/14/oculus-rift-allows-medical-students-watch-procedure-surgeons-perspective/ http://t.co/8WC5CO37F6
RT @HillelNeuer: Now: #Hamas attack wounds 3 Israeli Arabs who were driving Gazans to Israel for medical care. I urge @HRW's @KenRoth: Stop justifying Hamas.
RT @AvitalLeibovich: Truck full of medicine was sent by #Israel via Kerem Shalom Crossing, to #Gaza. #Hamas chose not to accept this and help save lives of Pales
