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    Automating Primary Healthcare
    Automating Primary Healthcare
    Automating Primary Healthcare
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    Automating Primary Healthcare

    By Vince Waterson

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    The healthcare service in the USA is in dire need of automation to reduce healthcare costs. That said, we have seen a proliferation of on-line healthcare portals which can connect patients with doctors by phone and video plus legions of SMART Phone apps which claim to be able to do everything from checking your pulse to even performing an EKG. Unfortunately it’s not a unified approach and most of these systems don’t communicate with each other. This publication looks at the latest innovations in retail healthcare services and technology and how these may be used to reduce the number of people using hospital Emergency Rooms for primary healthcare. An estimated 25% of the over 100 million visitors to ER each year. New technology and services are on the horizon to enable people with minor conditions to be able to receive treatment 24x7 without checking into a hospital ER.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVince Waterson
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781310089961
    Automating Primary Healthcare
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    Vince Waterson

    Telecommunications and Telemedicine Innovator and Entrepreneur.

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      Automating Primary Healthcare - Vince Waterson

      INTRODUCTION

      The first self-service gas station in the United States was in Los Angeles, California, opened in 1947 by Frank Urich. The first modern ATM was an IBM 2984 and came into use at Lloyds Bank, Brentwood High Street, Essex, England in December 1972. In 1995, Continental was the first airline to deploy electronic self-check-in kiosks, the first were installed at Newark Liberty International Airport. In April 2015 the WSJ reported that in Oxnard, California a 14-arm, automated harvester recently wheeled through rows of strawberry plants, illustrating an emerging solution to one of the produce industry’s most pressing problems: a shortfall of farmhands.

      The USA spends at least 16% of its GDP on healthcare. There is a severe shortage of family doctors. The well intentioned ‘Affordable Care Act.’ healthcare for everyone in the USA has proved more problematic than many imagined and there are many reported cases of people now paying more for healthcare than before the new system was introduced.

      Surely the healthcare service in the USA is in dire need of automation to reduce healthcare costs. That said, we have seen a proliferation of on-line healthcare portals which can connect patients with doctors by phone and video plus legions of SMART Phone apps which claim to be able to do everything from checking your pulse to even performing an EKG. Unfortunately it’s not a unified approach and most of these systems don’t communicate with each other.

      Much of

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