Telemedicine 2020 and the next decade
2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 395; Issue: 10227 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30424-4
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Surgical Simulation and Training
ResumoIn 1991, Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm and highlighted how disruptive innovations are adopted. The crucial junction is the gap between use by a few visionaries and acceptance by an early majority of pragmatists. The past decade saw telemedicine finally cross this chasm. In the USA, at least 15% of physicians work in practices that use telemedicine and adoption by private insurers increased by 50% per year for most of the decade. Meanwhile, the UK's National Health Service Long Term Plan says “digitally enabled care will go mainstream”. Digital medicine: empowering both patients and cliniciansWhen physicians and health-care professionals think of the term digital medicine a first reaction might be that this represents an oxymoron. Medicine involves human touch and anything digital has traditionally been conceived as its antithesis. This sentiment is unsurprising given reactions to the big foray of computers in medicine—electronic medical records—considered by some to have diminished the relationship between doctors and their patients. Full-Text PDF Adding artificial intelligence to gastrointestinal endoscopyToday gastroenterologists face the challenge of how to perceive and interpret the high volume—about 30 high-definition frames per s—of rich visual data presented in real time during an endoscopy. Unlike many other medical image scenarios, gastroenterologists must make diagnostic decisions in real time since procedures, such as taking a biopsy or removing a polyp, are immediately influenced by the visual findings. Computer vision applied to endoscopy has the potential to improve interpretation of images. Full-Text PDF
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