Smart Phones for Medical Diagnosis : Security An Issue With New FCC Ruling?

Innovation is so important to advance medical technology and therefore heath care for this country and this is a good one. The only thing standing in the way of new technology is the progressive democrats and their collective votes that brought us all ObamaCare.

But like everything that has anything to do with progressive socialist democrats, they have decided one of the key elements of the ideology of total control was missing, and that was control of the internet. The internet is vital for this new technology that promises so much for our health care. What? Oh wait, they now have the first step in place with the new ruling by the FCC - five people have decided to take control of the internet as ordered by Mr Obama.

I wonder how this will effect the security of medical records that can be used as a tool against the population by democrats and their friends?

Smart Phone Based Medical Devices Making Big Impacts
Source: Jeong Seo, "Future of Medicine and the Internet of Things," The National Center for Policy Analysis, February 26, 2015.

March 2, 2015

Investments in digital health ventures doubled in 2014. Institutions, analysts and MDs envision the opportunity to reduce the colossal inefficiency of current medical practice by exploiting the Internet of Things, says Jeong Seo, research associate at the National Center for Policy Analysis.

Additionally, according to a recent JAMA article, the number of mobile devices connected via the internet is doubling every five years, and there will be nearly seven connected devices per individual by 2020.

The development most directly affecting today's patient is sensors in smartphones and wearable devices. Such technology quantify physiologic metrics ranging from an individual's number of steps taken to his or her vital signs.

Smartphones have already achieved what pedometers have not: wide adoption by the general population. Nearly two out of three U.S. adults own a smartphone and over one in four Americans have used sensors to track activity.

• Counting steps has been a successful tool used to improve clinical outcomes.
• Smartphone cameras can now diagnose skin lesions with accuracy equivalent to or exceeding that of physicians.
• Similar applications for blood pressure and glucose levels have already hit consumer markets.

As digital medicine moves rapidly, key dynamics to monitor include congressional approval and privacy issues. The medical community, regulators and consumers will decide how these innovations are used. The technology itself, however, is not slowing down for anyone.