General Electric and Intel will be jointly investing 250 million dollars in an effort to develop and market home health technologies to patients with chronic conditions. Their goal is to create products which will help patients and their physicians to manage their conditions from the comfort of their homes. The companies estimate that the market for such products will grow from the current 3 billion US dollars to 7.7 billion by 2021. Some of the issues they hope to tackle include diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiovascular diseases and fall prevention.
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Tags: GE, General Electric, healthcare, Intel, telehealth, telemedicine
Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
just few questions, evening primrose oil is prefer to which gender? and, what age do people can take this supplement?
thanks.