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more about #healthcare more comments → RoboBagins: Ppppffffff. Everyone knows the future of health care is... The Nozzle more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who's got the biggest melanoma of them all?" more » BeyondtheTech: Be honest. How many of you clicked JUST BECAUSE there was a barely-clothed woman in the thumbnail? more » zackrobbin: all we need is a $7,850 iphone app that disables everything but the text-to speech app. then everybody wins! more » Sevenfeet: One other thing about how brain dead that Medicare's thinking is about paying for programs like Proloquo2go + an iPhone/iPod Touch. Assistive devices... more » SuperSonik: Where did the government get the no-bid contract for an 8000-dollar, text-to-speech only solution? Ladies and Gents, I present to you a fleeting glim... more » banmojo: Here's a perfect example of why government should NOT be in charge of deciding what doctors are trained to decide. Do you really think Obama will be ... more » Barry99705: Honestly, the people that really need the expensive device couldn't use the iPod/iPhone version anyway. There's a real good chance they won't have th... more » TheWerewolf - Sotto voce: While I agree with the principle of the article... let's flip it around and see why the government is so paranoid about this. Imagine if they started... more » blash: I find this article really rather funny - if we turned the situation on its head, and Medicare did decide to pay for the iPhone for disabled people, w... more » EdgarJPublius: there are enough parents who try to claim their kids are autistic already without the promise of free iPhones to entice fraudsters. more » gizzed: couldn't someone just buy the ipod touch on their own dime and get subsidized for the app? yeesh. more » Scott Jackson: I agree that $8000 is outrageous, but speaking as somebody who has had a family member use one of these dedicated TTS devices, you clearly don't under... more » Faxmonkey: It might be the smarter choice. It's hard to say. There point is allowing a device that can do other things invites fraud. It means that people who... more » wolfstone: "We would not cover the iPhones and netbooks with speech-generating software capabilities because they are useful in the absence of an illness or inju... more » -
#concepts
A Glimpse Into What's Hopefully the Future of Healthcare
You know Frog Design even if you don't know Frog Design. Their ideas influenced companies including Sony and Apple. And in a recent piece for Fast Company, they presented a thesis on a tech-savvy future for healthcare that's worth reading. More » -
#politics
Medicare Would Rather Buy $8000 Computer than $150 iPhone App
Say that, all things equal, you could fix a problem for $8000 or fix the same problem for $150. Which would you choose? Clearly, you are not Medicare. More » -
#healthcare
Obama's Plan to Digitize Medical Records Draws Criticism from Doctors
Digitization of medical records is one of Obama's most prominent talking points: he claims modernizing records will save lives and billions of dollars at the same time. But some doctors aren't taken with the idea. More » -
#lighttherapy
OLEDs to be Used to Treat Skin Cancer, Acne
OLEDs boast great resolutions and energy efficiency, but they could also be used to treat skin cancer and acne. A U.K. team is developing wearable OLED stickers that'll cure your skin ailments on the go. More » -
