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Healing the body electric: In the next five to ten years, a new generation of small networked sensors will provide doctors with up-to-the-moment insight into patients’ health
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- Title
- Better quality medical care: There's an app for that-or there will be soon
- Published
- Nov 20 2018
- Word count
- 1415 words
As someone who works in healthcare, in IT, actually aggregating and making sense of this data, 5-10 years is simply way too fast of a timeline for this stuff to really be implemented.
We'll see some minor applications of smart sensors and wearables following patients home at tertiary and quaternary, expensive, bleeding-edge hospitals but this will not be mainstream at all.
We simply don't have the infrastructure ready to integrate these devices with our EHR, let alone develop an AI to sift through this kind of data.
This sentence doesn't really make sense.
You might want to rename the title to something more like:
or something similar
"Body electric" is a poetic turn of phrase popularized by Walt Whitman in one of his most famous poems, that is rather common in pop culture even to this day [2], particularly in science fiction/transhumanism/futurology/etc. We can certainly argue whether or not it's appropriate to include in an editorialized topic title, but saying it "doesn't really make sense" isn't really true if you're aware of the phrase, IMO.
I was unaware of the phrase, thanks.