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What is the main focus of digital health?
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?
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?
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?
Why is the practice of medicine described as hardly scalable?
What does the text suggest is necessary for potential implementation to include large groups of people?
What does the text suggest is necessary for potential implementation to include large groups of people?
What represents more than three trillion US dollars per year spent for healthcare in the USA?
What represents more than three trillion US dollars per year spent for healthcare in the USA?
What did former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, refer to as 'the biggest technology breakthrough of our time'?
What did former US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, refer to as 'the biggest technology breakthrough of our time'?
How many available health apps were identified by Nathan Cortez et al. in their review of FDA regulation on mobile healthcare technologies?
How many available health apps were identified by Nathan Cortez et al. in their review of FDA regulation on mobile healthcare technologies?
What percentage of the approximately 250,000 health apps available online and/or in the healthcare market has the FDA approved for clinical use?
What percentage of the approximately 250,000 health apps available online and/or in the healthcare market has the FDA approved for clinical use?
What is identified as historically the biggest barrier to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?
What is identified as historically the biggest barrier to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?
Which factor is rapidly sculpting the way new generations will practice medicine?
Which factor is rapidly sculpting the way new generations will practice medicine?
What could lead to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?
What could lead to the successful implementation of digital technologies in healthcare?
What is forecasted to be the number of users of digital health by 2018?
What is forecasted to be the number of users of digital health by 2018?
What are low-cost digital health innovations very attractive to?
What are low-cost digital health innovations very attractive to?
'A culture of innovation must be nurtured to become pervasive throughout basic and advanced medical education curricula' for what purpose?
'A culture of innovation must be nurtured to become pervasive throughout basic and advanced medical education curricula' for what purpose?
What is referred to as 'the medication' in the last sentence of the text?
What is referred to as 'the medication' in the last sentence of the text?
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