50% of $4,000 is still beyond the majority of our clients ability to pay.
But by the time all is said and done, that is about what the newest
CCTV's cost. Maybe even more when you buy the one that both magnifies
and reads in a very clear voice. And the double whammy of both vision
and hearing loss, with the rising cost of hearing aids, most of the
folks we serve simply say, "Who's there...And speak up so's I can hear
you!"
People who "live on the top of the hill" and retire with piles of
money, never use our services. They can buy all the bells and
whistles. And if those bells and whistles don't satisfy them, they
toss them out and buy the "next generation". For the low income
folks, it really doesn't matter how wonderful new technology is. In
fact, even though it yanks my chain to wait two weeks or a month for a
simple doctor's appointment, I suck it up and make the call. And once
there I find I must sit in the waiting room for half an hour and have
his assistant ask all the questions, which she herself has no answers
for, and the doctor enters with his eye glued to my charts, looks up,
smiles and says something like, "Things are looking pretty darn good".
And off he/she goes. I am old enough...barely, to remember being
coddled by my family doctor. We called it "Bedside Manner", and it
was a major part of what he did. I always felt better after seeing
that old doctor. Today I leave the doctor's office wondering why I
wasted so much time.
And lastly, but not leastly, we, the working class, are putting up the
tax dollars that help our wealthy brothers and sisters to avail
themselves of all this wonderful new technology that we can't afford.
"...And the rich get rich and the poor get poorer...in the meantime
and in between time, ain't we got fun?"
Carl Jarvis
On 9/21/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It all sounds wonderful. But aside from the insanity of its funding, my big
issue with our health care system is that doctors aren’t trained to talk to
and get to know their patients anymore, or to examine their bodies. They
have not developed the medical intuition that the last good doctor I had, a
GP back in the late 60’s and early 70’s had. They look at test results on
computers. They don’t look at patients. They don’t know their patients as
human beings. They know the piece of the body in which they specialize by
looking at computers. Even specialists in internal medicine, our newfangled
GPS, don’t know us anymore and how can they when they spend 20 minutes with
us, never asking all those routine questions they used to ask. And now we
have robots and cameras to check on our elderly, who live alone because
their children have no time to drop in and see how they’re doing. If I read
one more article about the benefits of technology in Medicine, I may just
have a stroke!
Miriam
From: Kelly Gasque via announce [mailto:announce@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:49 PM
To: leadership@xxxxxxxxxxxx; announce@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Kelly Gasque <kgasque@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [announce] Article: Using Virtual And Augmented Reality In Medical
Diagnosis, Treatment And Therapy
Using Virtual And Augmented Reality In Medical Diagnosis, Treatment And
Therapy
Article Link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2017/09/20/using-virtual-and-augmented-reality-in-medical-diagnosis-treatment-and-therapy/#342991a7c4bc
Mark Gregot, co-founder, and CEO, NuEyes
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, wanted to create augmented reality (AR) smart glasses for people who have
low vision or are vision impaired. He co-opted the technology from his time
in the US Navy to make a prototype in 2013. Four years later, the NuEyes
smart glasses are built on the ODG R-7 platform with $1.2 Million in
investment from angel investors under their belt. The company also has a
major national insurance carrier that now covers up to 50 percent of the
cost of the product which makes it more affordable for the visually
impaired.
One of NuEye's users is nine year old Felix
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, who is legally blind due to a rare disease. These smart glasses bring the
outside world into focus for Felix. Felix can see spots of color, but he
can't see facial expressions or objects in a room. The NuEyes smart glasses
let Felix see the faces of his classmates and the blackboard in the
classroom so he can have a meaningful learning experience like his
classmates.
With the advances in technology, VR, AR and artificial intelligence (AI)
will create entirely new applications in healthcare
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. According to a 2017 global healthcare sector outlook by Deloitte, the top
ten technology innovations that will bring more value for less in health
care are next-generation sequencing, 3D-printed devices, immunotherapy, AI,
point-of-care diagnostics, VR, social media, biosensors and trackers,
convenient care and telehealth.
The race to capture the three trillion dollar healthcare industry has
already started with companies like Google and Apple
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acquiring health tech companies and fine-tuning their own platforms for
smart glasses and other personal mobile diagnostic devices like a blood
glucose monitors
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. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2017, SAP CEO, Bill
McDermott emphasized
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personalized, precision medicine through technology will be the future of
the healthcare industry and moving it from a primarily analog experience to
a digital one.
But instead of waiting for the future, there are already healthcare
organizations using VR to improve the everyday lives of people like Felix.
At Maplewood Senior Living
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in Connecticut, the residential facility is using VR to create immersive
experiences to help residents with cognitive impairment and dementia unlock
memories and stimulate emotions and interaction.
"We're using VR for the sheer experiential value of creating these immersive
360-degree experiences," said Greg Smith, CEO, Maplewood Senior Living. "We
want to be able to provide a wow experience beyond the healthcare
application because anyone can enjoy the experience of being within a
virtual reality world."
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