What is your greatest hope/greatest concern about the increased use of technology in healthcare?

Curing chronic disease

privacy

Hope = digitizing & sharing health data to advance research & cures

Cybersecurity

reduce costs

robot prostate exams...

Individualized treatments

"Using tech to reduce cost of healthcare."

remote diagnostics

Avoid duplication

Reduction in cost of service through more effective delivery.

Risk reduction

Never filling out another form.

prevention

improving care while lowering costs

more preventive care and less "treating symptoms"

Obsession with technology will distract us from our biggest challenge which is the management of chronic disease which is largely low tech

greater awareness and accountability for outcomes through self monitoring

That we get a genuine health system rather than the sickness treatment system we currently have

Greatest hope, which would be a gigantic challenge is reversing the aging process in humans

Forced limits on lifestyle choices b/c of correlated health risks

gut flora cultivation and self management

Growing hair

removing hair

accelerated discovery and development of new treatments

leveraging big data to meet patient need

Better tracking of patient care

We will cure so many diseases and increase life expectancy to a point where the planet cannot sustain the resulting population boom .

Diminishing marginal returns to scale and massive costs for new technology

Ethical issues that will arise through genomic medicine

privacy

- biggest concern is what happened in the recent Johnny Depp movie "TRANSCENDANCE" - biggest hope is a cure for ALS.

Medical technology will not be widely available, reinforcing differences between rich and poor

can we shift from quantity to quality

Technology will improve outcomes, but it will increase cost and decrease access.

Hope: efficiency. Fear: privacy.

Robots will have better bedside manner than doctors

Will medical personnel (and their lobbying associations) permit technologies to be deployed if they reduce the number of people needed in system?

Using anonomous medical data to profile for employment, education, banking, and marketing decision for a class of society.

We'll have tests to learn the 1,000 things that are going to kill us but cures for only a dozen or so