Medical Technology

@pmarca 8 years ago

Because people like the medications they take that improve their health and make their lives better. https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/695438819533856768

@pmarca 8 years ago

"More hospitals in an area does increase the utilization of medical resources. It does not improve health outcomes." http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/more-hospital-access-does-not-equal-more-health/

@pmarca 8 years ago

US spends ~$3T per year on health care; loses ~$3T per year in economic terms from deaths caused by medical errors. http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2015/11/how-many-deaths-from-mistakes-in-us.html

@pmarca 8 years ago

RT @Robert_Graboyes: MY NEW ARTICLE/ We paralyzed health care markets before medicine became useful. Technology is reviving those markets. http://mercatus.org/expert_commentary/why-us-health-care-so-expensive

@pmarca 9 years ago

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

@pmarca 9 years ago

RT @Robert_Graboyes: CREATIVE DESTRUCTION OF MEDICINE/ @EricTopol explores why health care #innovation lags IT. "We need a jailbreak." http://t.co/LDY14VPX5t

@pmarca 9 years ago

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