When a phone is cheaper than a medical test

Medical technology is very important for improving quality of life and therefore it is important for all the medical stakeholders to work together as a team to keep technology from making medical costs high.
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What you need to know:

  • Looking at it closely, one will realise that the same creativity in digital technology has not been applied in making the provision of medical services affordable. The same technology has rather “failed miserably” in making medicines, medical products and health services cheap.