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The change in accessible healthcare
Access to healthcare is changing and it is happening fast
The shift from in-hospital primary care to home hospital care has been gaining momentum. Today the healthcare system is too centralized, we are still focused on building large and expensive hospitals in city centers, existing ultrasound systems ( even the new versions ) are that they still depend on a doctor to look at the image, analyze it and interpret it. 50% of the readmissions are happening because of not following discharge orders and regular visits after being released from the hospital. Especially people living in rural areas, low-income communities don't have access to regular visits or medical monitoring. The result of those disconnections between the hospital and the field is every increasing health expense that could be prevented by decentralized medical imaging.
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Healthcare is essential. However, it is also a very expensive sector, with high costs associated with things like hospital stays, surgeries, and other treatments. However, there are way to make healthcare more affordable, and one of them is through the use of decentralized medical imaging.
Decentralized medical imaging is a way to allow people to have access to medical images and information without having to go through a central authority. This can be done through the use of peer-to-peer networking, and it has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of healthcare.
One of the benefits of decentralized medical imaging is that it would allow for more timely diagnosis of diseases. Often, diseases are not diagnosed until they have progressed to a point where they are more expensive to treat. If people had access to medical images early on, then they could be diagnosed and treated earlier, which would save money in the long run.