Wednesday, March 24, 2010
TED Talks: The giant hospital on the hill is "mainframe healthcare" - a relic from the last century
At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals, doctors, nursing homes. As our aging population booms, it's imperative, he says, to create personal, networked, home-based health care for all.