Between Brackets

Nick Hunn worked on the new low energy bluetooth standard that -according to him- we will see implemented in hundreds of millions of devices as soon as the beginning of 2011.

His presentation revolved around the central question: what if everything were interconnected?

Not only your TV-set, your computer, your iPhone/iPod, digital cameras and the likes. But also door-knobs and handles for instance.

And what if these door-knobs and handles were fitted a sensor to measure your pulse, or the pulse of elderly people? This could vastly improve the collection of data.

Nick Hunn also gave us his thoughts on mHealth:

• mHealth won’t make healthcare less expensive.
• doctors don’t want it, nor do patients.
• mHealth is not about curing disease. It’s about how much people want to pay (to improve their quality of life…)

So how will we change society so that it wants to improve health care?

Well, to get mHealth going: stop thinking like doctors, start thinking like patients.

For the statisticians among us: the average person takes 50000 pills in a lifetime (200000 in the US). I put my spreadsheet to work and this is the result: if you reach the age of 70, you’ll have ingested an average of 2 pills a day.

Read up on more of his thoughts here.

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