[p2p-research] Important P2P Meme Often Overlooked

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Ryan,

any chance you could develop this a little more into a blog article?

the other aspect of high healthcare cost is monopoly pricing, both for
medicines and for medical hardware, which could be fundamentally eased by
public domain medicines and open design for medical hardware.

This approach has been proposed (and probably studied) by Dean Baker,

Michel

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a crucial new theme for P2P which is going unwatched...healthcare
> and test.
>
> The new iPhone (3) is going to greatly facilitate device use of nets.  That
> will revolutionize this area the way Kindle 2 is revolutionizing print. Yes,
> there were forerunners and early innovators, but this is P2P maturity
> wherein people will blast large datasets of their own health data to
> discussions and analyses and where tests are created to run all sorts of P2P
> outcomes with and without physician interactions.  Huge in the developing
> world where cell phone nets are common but medicine is rare.
>
>
> http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/self-directed-health-at-home-lab.html
>
> Smart money would bet on this as the vehicle for shattering impasses in
> health care costs.  Whole industries now are dying...banking, publishing,
> newsprint, etc. in direct P2P terms and almost no one is seeing the thread.
> Futurists, where are you?
>
>
> Ryan Lanham
>
>
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