“Health Waze”
Waze GPS is a software product from Google that aids driving navigation. In this piece the medical chair of Singularity University proposes such a system for managing individual health. For example, he says: “In the not-so-distant future, people who get sick will be able to stay home and consult with a Siri- or Alexa-style virtual doctor. Home checkup kits will arrive at home by drone, carrying devices to draw and analyze blood. Sensors placed around the house will monitor gait and transmit information on the status of back trouble. Smartphones will be able to check eyesight, breath or voice to scan for specific ills. Should anything be amiss, the virtual doctor would schedule an appointment with the relevant professional.” If so, this approach should be trialed in a west-end neighborhood of Huntington, WV, where life expectancy at birth is 62 years, as it was when the Social Security Act passed in 1935, and a year and a half lower than Haiti’s. MORE
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