Wireless medicine is showing amazing potential. As the interviewed physician reports in this piece, he prescribes more apps now than medications. The possibilities for distant assessments, diagnoses, and prescribing is especially salient for Canadians in rural areas without regular access to physicians and/or specialists. One thing to consider along with the wonderful advances of health care in the digital age is… who owns the information acquired through the technologies? To learn more, watch Hugo Campos’ TEDx talk where he discusses his implantable cardiac defibrillator which continually collects information about his body, yet he has no access to it. The information ‘belongs’ to the company who made the device.
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