Technology approaches for risk diagnosis and disease prevention

Patient benefits may be maximized at home by reducing the risk of various hospital-related complications, such as infection decubitus complications and loneliness. The company reimagined a health-care system far beyond today’s paper and electronic records—instead taking the power of the virtual worl...

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Published inMIT Technology Review.com
Main Authors Biot, Claire, Johnson, Patrick, Massart, Sébastien, and Nicolas Pécuchet
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Technology Review, Inc 20.11.2019
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3-D printers
Complications
Disease control
Disease prevention
Health care
Health risks
Medical equipment
Patients
Surgery
Virtual communities
Virtual reality
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Summary:Patient benefits may be maximized at home by reducing the risk of various hospital-related complications, such as infection decubitus complications and loneliness. The company reimagined a health-care system far beyond today’s paper and electronic records—instead taking the power of the virtual world to capture the best understanding of the body and combining it with a finely tuned ability to perceive subtle details in a 3D world. According to a 2017 report by G. Irving, one measure of these changes is the average duration of a consultation, which is constantly decreasing.
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