The future of healthcare will see a post-hospital world due to advances in personalized medicine, health monitoring & nanotechnology. This post from Futurism predicts that by 2030, hospitals may become a thing of the past. BRAVE NEW WORLD As the world of medicine is increasingly changed by biology, technology, communications, genetics, and robotics, predicting the outlook ... Continue Reading
Hospitals are one of the leading causes of death in America
This article puts the focus on the high incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the hospitals, and the fact that it is preventable. It goes on to explain five simple reforms that could make health care much safer. If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America, writes surgeon Dr. Marty Makary in the Wall Street Journal.1 By ... Continue Reading