We read once that in the year 1900 50% of the American population was involved in producing food, and now it’s 3% – huge tractors, huge ploughs, huge seeding and harvesting machinery in the place of things like farmers walking behind horses with single furrow ploughs. (Apparently Henry Ford in response to criticisms of his production lines for being boring for his workers for 9 hours a day said, “Not as boring as walking behind a horse pulling a single furrow plough for 16 hours a day.”)
We believe that we are on the verge of a similar revolution in health workers diagnosing health and wellness problems, treating them and providing information – that at present, in these things, we’re at the “walking behind a horse pulling a single furrow plough for 16 hours a day” stage.
Things like Crowdmed and “Watson,” referred to in previous posts, are just the beginning.