Slideshow: Images from ATA Day 2

By: Brian Dolan | May 1, 2009

Health Buddy now Bosch

Two Health Buddies hanging out at ATA. We still wonder: Who needs a dedicated device these days with a mobile phone in almost every pocket?

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Julie Anony

I must be missing something. “Who will be the early adopters…”? We already have early adopters of telemedicine. They aren’t necessarily the geeks though they are perhaps driven by those technically minded folks who see the need to implement it. The group I work with are the aged and the chronically ill. They are often rural and poor and lack other access to medicine.

I did not read the whole set of slides, but the opener just struck me as being ridiculous. I am sorry to read it was from someone at the NIH.
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Julie,

I agree. I thought both the question and response were odd given the event was focused on Telemedicine and had been around for some 14 years…

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