Healthcare Delivery

Why a futuristic digital healthcare system, might not be out of reach

A diabetes patient has her pulse checked by diabetes specialist Doctor Tong Xiao Lin during a medical check-up at the Guanganmen Chinese medicine Hospital in Beijing March 19, 2012. In 30 years, the Chinese people have gone from having barely enough to eat to worrying about chronic diseases like diabetes, leaving the healthcare system struggling with a condition that is rapidly outpacing its ability to keep up. Spending on diabetes reached $25 billion in China in 2010, only 6 percent of the $390 billion spent worldwide. But the rate of diabetes in China is already at the same levels as in the West, leaving doctors, drug companies and policymakers to hunt for low-cost alternatives before the disease swamps the rudimentary healthcare system. Picture taken March 19, 2012. To match Feature CHINA-DIABETES/ REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTR2ZUB0

With data gathered from sensors in your home, doctors could run advanced data analytics. Image: REUTERS/David Gray

Rami Qahwaji
Professor of Visual Computing, University of Bradford
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