{"id":1181,"date":"2012-06-12T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T10:20:35","slug":"would-you-be-happy-to-visit-your-doctor-online-john-sculley-says-most-of-us-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1181-would-you-be-happy-to-visit-your-doctor-online-john-sculley-says-most-of-us-should.html","title":{"rendered":"Would you be happy to visit your doctor online? John Sculley says most of us should"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudwf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cloud Computing World Forum<\/a> in London where former Apple CEO John Sculley has been speaking about healthcare in the cloud. Sculley is involved with a US company called <a href=\"http:\/\/mdlivecare.com\" target=\"_blank\">MDLive<\/a> which lets you make a virtual appointment with a doctor rather than turning up at your local surgery, sitting in the waiting room for an hour, and then getting 7 minutes consultation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/gadgets.itwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/image_thumb8.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"229\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sculley says this puts together several strands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most visits to the doctor are unnecessary<\/li>\n<li>In person visits are more expensive and there is always pressure to reduce costs<\/li>\n<li>Sensor technology is in its infancy but promises much \u2013 we already have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitbit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fitbit<\/a> and the like, which monitors exercise, but in future your mobile may alert you to an impending heart attack or perform other automated monitoring of your health, and upload data to an internet service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I asked Sculley if there had been studies of accuracy of diagnosis from an in-person versus an online appointment. The online ones are actually more accurate, he claims, because they make better use of available data.<\/p>\n<p>Sculley calls online doctor surgeries an example of \u201cDomain Expertise as a Service\u201d, the implication being that the same kind of logic will apply to other kinds of consultation, not just healthcare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London where former Apple CEO John Sculley has been speaking about healthcare in the cloud. Sculley is involved with a US company called MDLive which lets you make a virtual appointment with a doctor rather than turning up at your local surgery, sitting in the waiting room &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1181-would-you-be-happy-to-visit-your-doctor-online-john-sculley-says-most-of-us-should.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Would you be happy to visit your doctor online? John Sculley says most of us should<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1137],"tags":[158,1210,1286,1314],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-comment","tag-apple","tag-cloud-computing-2","tag-healthcare","tag-john-sculley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}