New trends in portable medical systems and telenealth

摘要

In our current healthcare system, the patient is not asked to take an active role. Most of us have no knowledge about the human body or about the early signs of a disease. For example, you can ask people about the balance of their bank account but most of them will not be able to tell you what their blood pressure or heart rate is. The outcome is that people usually react too late and when they go to their doctor and have a diagnosis. Potentially the prescribed treatment is more expensive and has more physiological impact than if the disease had been detected earlier.