The average life expectancy since the 1800s has jumped between 25 and 40 years—to about 80 years in the developed world and about 70 years worldwide paid intel
century, human healthcare evolved slowly in the dark ages, bereft of the breakthroughs of modern science. The first forms of anesthetics, for example, didn’t emerge until the mid-1800s. But in the less than 200 years since, “things have changed beyond recognition,” writes Yuval Harari in his best-selling book,“Pills, injections and sophisticated operations save us from a spate of illnesses and injuries that once dealt an inescapable death sentence,” he writes.
We are at the beginning of an era where self-managed healthcare will play a prominent role. Today, for example, it’s possible to take a person’s blood sample and, with a high degree of precision, identify real-time changes in thousands of proteins to detect potentially serious health conditions before they become serious.Roy Smythe
Wearables such as smart watches are putting healthy heart care within reach for many consumers, including my wife, for whom I recently bought an Apple Watch. Although she has no known heart disease, we marvel at its ability to perform an ECG and tell her in real time whether its results are normal or if it detects an arrhythmia, such as atrial fibrillation. Other platforms, such as AliveCor’s KardiaMobile and KardiaBand, offer even more capabilities.
Babylon Health offers an advanced chatbot that can converse with patients and either triage them to over-the-counter treatments or suggest more traditional medical evaluation. Similarly, Sensely’s chatbot interacts with patients by voice or text and offers self-care advice or a referral to a physician. The company partners with the Mayo Clinic, allowing its chatbot to tap into the premier medical teaching facility’s vast database of clinical knowledge.
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