By Dr. Stephen Schimpff, author of The Future of Medicine – Mega Trends in Healthcare
Sometimes the doctor patient interaction is far from adequate, but new mobile robotic technologies can help resolve the problem. I have a colleague who developed a cardiac arrhythmia called paroxysmal atrial tachycardia or PAT. The treatment was to thread a small catheter via the femoral artery in his groin up...
By Dr. Stephen Schimpff, author of The Future of Medicine - Mega Trends in Healthcare
E-medicine will have a wide, growing and very important place in the delivery of health care in the years to come. By e-medicine I refer to simple approaches like email all the way to the very complex telesurgery done remotely across continents with a robot.
There are many hurdles, not the least of which are...
