Low-cost sensors, cloud-based data storage and other new techonological innovations carry a great potential of cutting costs and thereby facilitate access to health care services. Image source: Shutterstock (#262833674)
Digital technology provides great opportunities for the health care sector and much is evolving that falls under the term eHealth. Three new trend-setting gadgets were among those presented at a conference in San Diego last week: a mobile ultrasound machine, a handheld air sensor, and a wearable patient identification. Expectations are high that the new technology, such as low-cost sensors or cloud storage, will cut costs in the health care sector while improving performance. Hence eHealth technology might especially be interesting for lower-income countries where more people could access health care services.
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