I’m pretty sure that when you read the word
“patient” in the headline of this article, your first thought was about
sick rather than healthy people. A patient in the healthcare sector,
however, is like a consumer in the retail sector — both healthy and sick
patients purchase goods and services. A healthy patient is the desired
goal of doctors. Elizabeth Dwoskin and Joseph Walker report that doctors
are studying the use of wearable devices to determine whether
monitoring patient activity can help make patients healthier.
Link to full article here.
via Wired.com
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