The 308,000 individuals worldwide who received remote monitoring in 2012 to care for issues like heart disease, diabetes, and mental illness is already pretty impressive. The projections for the next five years are even more astounding. The telehealth revolution has already started, and while home monitoring is certainly on the rise, the resources to improve diagnosis, treatment, and maintaining quality of life are improving significantly. Being able to “health from home” points to global trends in safer sharing of information, better rates of disease prevention, and lower costs of time and money for families facing diseases and conditions. It makes one wonder: what’s next for telemedicine and mobile health technology?
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You Won’t Believe the Data Behind This Health Care Innovation
Collecting more data isn’t the solution to every problem. But in health care, better data often lead to better results. One of the biggest obstacles in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases is that medical professionals and researchers need more accurate, detailed, diverse, connected data to better understand threats to people’s health. Digital technology can help. The Nokia Sensing XChallenge recognizes major innovation in health technology, and showcases some of the big numbers behind health at the same time. For example, tuberculosis still kills about 1.4 million people worldwide every year, but new devices can detect epidemics early and prevent the disease’s spread.
Google Creates a Better Way to Help You Find Your Local Lawmakers
Google just rolled out a few upgrades to its Civic Information API that “lets developers connect constituents to their federal, state, county and municipal elected officials—right down to the city council district.” In a blog post, Google stated that its API has already allowed developers to create apps for U.S. elections, but few offer ways to find lawmakers at the local level. You can already see the features of the new API in action via partner websites such as Change.org and Popvox. As with any open data project, the process is ongoing and open for testing and feedback. If you’d like to help test or weigh on on the new features, visit Google’s Developer Forum.
Source: Google Developers