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3 Disruptive Solutions For U.S. Healthcare: CareMore, Forward, Health City

Instead of futuristic hospital buildings and huge devices, disruptive technologies injected into small, almost invisible objects will set the trends in medicine. Such devices will create smart households bringing healthcare home.

Anna could not figure out what is wrong with her: in spite of being generally healthy, she has been sweating during sleep for days, she had lost some weight although she gave up her diet a while ago and she has been feeling mortifyingly tired for a while. It was not only her who noticed these symptoms but also her smart home: the sleep tracker mattress, the microchip in the toilet which detected some elevated lab markers in her urine, the smart scale measuring…

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 3 Disruptive Solutions For U.S. Healthcare: CareMore, Forward, Health City

American healthcare needs a hero. Among other wealthy countries, it ranks dead last in clinical outcomes yet costs more than $3 trillion a year. By comparison, Europe spends $1.8 trillion annually on healthcare for a population nearly twice the size.

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