I was truly impressed with the SonoSite
NanoMaxx. However, GE has really blown me away with the GE Vscan
"pocket" ultrasound. This is truly cool technology. Its cool not for
technologies sake alone, but because it helps to crystallize a vision that what
was once science fiction is clearly becoming so common place as to almost make
medical technology a commodity. A commodity? you say. Yes, medical technologies
will become commodities.
We are still stuck
with this idea that doctors and hospitals will be the only ones that will
control these technologies. I believe those days are ending (at least
definitely changing). The Internet has given patients unfettered access to
knowledge, allowing them to become more educated about their own health. It's
only a matter of time before patients have access to cheap but sophisticated
medical technologies enabling them to control their own care.
This product is NOT
being marketed to the general public, but I look at this and see Dr.
"Bones" McCoy's medical tricorder.Just a wave over the body and poof!
You've got your diagnosis. Give me 2 decades (and a stable economy), and I will
give you a radical change in what patients will be able to do for themselves.
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