Comments on: Appliance or Application? The Choice Finally is Coming to Health Care.

By: Leonard Kish

Leonard Kish — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:21:21 +0000

@VinceKuraitis Anything every happen with this health technology platform idea? http://bit.ly/d5BKYg

By: Ger van den Broek

Ger van den Broek — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:05:40 +0000

The same argument for applications on a general purpose device would hold for other generic platforms (touchpad like systems as iPad and competitors and even laptops) under the condition that the applications can run safely and securely (protected against other applications) and ideally some certification to indicate the quality of the applications.

By: MarkS

MarkS — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:36:46 +0000

This is insightful and could be a great boon to improving care and health.
However, we should be aware of the perverse incentives in our current financing system.
This can be illustrated by the case of the text to speech computers provided by Medicare. They are standard computers with rather mediocre text to speech software. However, “the rules” state that they must not be usable as a regular computer. The result is that they cost approx $5000.00 instead of $500.00 and they have software installed which prevents them from doing anything other than text to speech.
The people who sell these computers are happy since they are making big profits but patients and the taxpayer suffer.
Once something is identified as a medical device, it is captured by the insurance-industrial complex to ensure that they wring out maximum profit (at our expense) and make sure that there are “rules” to prevent us from freely using the device… and to keep the high priests in control. They just keep telling us to “ignore that man behind the curtain.”

By: Génimed

Génimed — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:48:27 +0000

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By: Sam Adams

Sam Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:09:10 +0000

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By: Leonard Kish

Leonard Kish — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:02:01 +0000

Exciting news! Appliance or Application? The Choice Finally is Coming to Health Care. by @VinceKuraitis http://bit.ly/aRLqpg

By: Lauren Alexanderson

Lauren Alexanderson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:29:17 +0000

RT @VinceKuraitis: Appliance or Application? The Choice Finally is Coming to Health Care. http://bit.ly/cGe5Qo #healthit #hitpol

By: Vince Kuraitis

Vince Kuraitis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:24:43 +0000

Appliance or Application? The Choice Finally is Coming to Health Care. http://bit.ly/cGe5Qo #healthit #hitpol