Monday, June 8, 2009

Health Care and technology article on The Economist

http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13437940

Some of the key point worth noting are the follows:
  • As bottom-up digital medicine arrives in full force, it will at last provide reformers with the tools they need to tackle the great health-care challenges of this century: dealing with the cost of chronic care for the ageing populations of the rich world and helping the weak health systems in poor countries tackle deadly diseases.

  • The most active communities on social networks such as MySpace concentrate not on celebrity gossip or sport but on chronic illness—especially stigmatized conditions like depression

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