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The health care sector is facing a far-reaching and unpredictable revolution. Smartphones are capable of replacing many devices that have become standard in medical practices and some apps will soon be able to provide diagnoses as well. Patients are becoming less reliant on doctors.
Eric Topol is a cardiologist in La Jolla, California, and is holding up new digital tools that make it possible to perform an electrocardiogram (EKG) anywhere using a smartphone, a $200 sensor and an app. It is one of the many pioneering tools that are transforming the medical world.
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Currently, patients frequently have to wait months for an appointment and hours in doctor's office waiting rooms for consultations that average just seven minutes. In the future, digital consultations could drastically reduce those waiting times.
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Markus Müschenich owns Flying Health, an incubator for medical industry startups in Berlin. The former pediatrician believes that digital medicine will revolutionize the field in the coming years.
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