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Evolution of Medicine and Healthcare Delivery Quiz

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What is the main focus of digital health?

Scalable production from day to day

Evolving medicine and surgery

Implementing and leveraging information and communication technologies for healthcare delivery (correct)

Conducting one-to-one patient-provider encounters

What is a significant challenge related to the current healthcare spending in the USA?

The evolution of medicine and surgery

Scaling production in the healthcare sector

The unsustainable level of healthcare spending (correct)

The need for large-scale implementation of potential healthcare solutions

What has played a significant role in the evolution of modern medicine and surgery?

Antisepsis, anesthesia, analgesia, antibiotics (correct)

Hardware and software development

Information and communication technologies

Scalable production in technology industries

Why is the practice of medicine described as hardly scalable?

It relies on one-to-one patient-provider encounters/relationships Signup and view all the answers

What does the text suggest is necessary for potential implementation to include large groups of people?

Scalable production from day to day Signup and view all the answers

What represents more than three trillion US dollars per year spent for healthcare in the USA?

Healthcare spending in the USA Signup and view all the answers

What did former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, refer to as 'the biggest technology breakthrough of our time'?

mHealth Signup and view all the answers

How many available health apps were identified by Nathan Cortez et al. in their review of FDA regulation on mobile healthcare technologies?

97,000 Signup and view all the answers

What percentage of the approximately 250,000 health apps available online and/or in the healthcare market has the FDA approved for clinical use?

Less than 1% Signup and view all the answers

What is identified as historically the biggest barrier to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?

Professional inertia Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is rapidly sculpting the way new generations will practice medicine?

All of the above Signup and view all the answers

What could lead to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?

Merging successful physician and innovator profiles Signup and view all the answers

What is forecasted to be the number of users of digital health by 2018?

$1.7–2 billion Signup and view all the answers

What are low-cost digital health innovations very attractive to?

Emerging markets Signup and view all the answers

'A culture of innovation must be nurtured to become pervasive throughout basic and advanced medical education curricula' for what purpose?

To improve patient outcomes Signup and view all the answers

What is referred to as 'the medication' in the last sentence of the text?

Digital health implementations Signup and view all the answers