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apps = applications? If so, would you like to give a bit more detailed definition about it?

 
 
Reply Tue 3 Jan, 2012 04:58 am
Plus, " reinvent medicine " means " reinvent medical science"?

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6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012

2012 “In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps.” Singularity University‘s executive director of FutureMed Daniel Kraft M.D. sat down with me to discuss the biggest emerging trends in HealthTech. Here we’ll look at how A.I, big data, 3D printing, social health networks and other new technologies will help you get better medical care. Kraft believes that by analyzing where the field is going, we have the ability to reinvent medicine and build important new business models.

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Reply Tue 3 Jan, 2012 06:02 am
@oristarA,
Yes, apps = applications. Instead of getting a drug, you might get a phone or ipod app that helps you modify your behavior.

"Reinvent medicine" means "fundamentally change how medicine is practiced".
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Reply Tue 3 Jan, 2012 07:51 am
@engineer,
engineer wrote:

Yes, apps = applications. Instead of getting a drug, you might get a phone or ipod app that helps you modify your behavior.

"Reinvent medicine" means "fundamentally change how medicine is practiced".


Thank you.

medicine means medical science (theory and practice) there?
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