Comments on: The Paradox of Technology in Healthcare http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/2010/03/the-paradox-of-technology-in-healthcare/ a blog about predictive medicine and the future of healthcare Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Kardos http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/2010/03/the-paradox-of-technology-in-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-4775 Stephen Kardos Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:06:22 +0000 http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/?p=1324#comment-4775 What a terrific start of a discussion! It is not technology that is driving up the cost of healthcare. It is that technology paves the way for us to believe we can overcome health maintenance by using technology and medications to fix us later on when we break. Society's behavior creates the perception of technology not being efficient. The technology is efficient and productive, our behavior is not. Another problem is that information about what individuals need to do about their health needs is not available at time it is needed. This causes people not to act when they should (preventive health)and to undergo procedures when they shouldn't. The gap between providers and patients continues to widen because of misaligned and non reliable information driving health processes. Stephen Kardos What a terrific start of a discussion! It is not technology that is driving up the cost of healthcare. It is that technology paves the way for us to believe we can overcome health maintenance by using technology and medications to fix us later on when we break. Society’s behavior creates the perception of technology not being efficient. The technology is efficient and productive, our behavior is not.

Another problem is that information about what individuals need to do about their health needs is not available at time it is needed. This causes people not to act when they should (preventive health)and to undergo procedures when they shouldn’t. The gap between providers and patients continues to widen because of misaligned and non reliable information driving health processes.

Stephen Kardos

]]> By: Eriam http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/2010/03/the-paradox-of-technology-in-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-4764 Eriam Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:10:37 +0000 http://thedecisiontree.com/blog/?p=1324#comment-4764 What about: the spendings saved by saving lives versus the spendings spent in technologies helping us to save thoses lives Which is somehow the hidden benefit of saved lives. So isn't this already some sort of scaling to be able to address more patients ? Thanks What about:

the spendings saved by saving lives versus the spendings spent in technologies helping us to save thoses lives

Which is somehow the hidden benefit of saved lives.

So isn’t this already some sort of scaling to be able to address more patients ?

Thanks

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