Medic: go to an office can be a thing of past with new technologies in healthcare
São Paulo – With depend on Teladoc a startup American founded in 2002, the need for visits to clinics Doctors will drop much in the future. The company works on an appointment system for video. The average time between the patient and ask a query of the registered doctors in Teladoc meet the patient is 16 minutes.
The Teladoc is part of the group of startups technology which focuses on the health . The number of companies is growing very kind -. Calls and increasingly the attention of investors around the world
Only in 2014, the investment in this type of startup already reached three billion dollars. The numbers are from a report by Health Rock. Throughout the year 2013, the investment companies of the type not reached two billion dollars. In 2011, this figure was less than a billion dollars.
The Teladoc is a major focus of investments this year. She recently received $ 50 million investment (it is the second biggest of the year so far). The main investment in 2014 went to Proteus Digital Health, which received 52 million.
Sensors swallowing
The Proteus has a more futuristic technological footprint than Teladoc. She develops ingestible sensors and to be coupled to the body, and an application of monitoring medication.
According to estimates of the portal Mobi Health News, the company would have received $ 400 million in investments since its founding. The board of health of USA , the FDA has certified the sensors developed by Proteus.
The market has not escaped the eyes of the great figures of Silicon Valley . The ex-wife of Sergey Brin , one of the founders of Google , started a company called 23andMe. She makes analysis DNA and displays health related customer results. Google was one of the financiers of the company. The 23andMe recently had problems with the American health agency, and his tests came to be banned.
The other founder of Google, Larry Page , also works in the area, with the Calico startup. She has an even more extreme goal. As Time magazine put the Calico has the ultimate goal to conquer death.
In practice, the Calico want to understand the aging body and find a way to fight it.
Big Date
For those who want to predict the next big changes that technology can have on society, health seems to be a great possibility. The technology for analyzing large amounts of data ( big data ) is widely applied in the field of health.
According to the report from Rock Health, this is the area with the largest investments this year. Of three billion dollars, 381 million were used to finance companies that area. Then are digital devices for analysis of medication (with 280 million), as the Proteus does. The sector of telemedicine, as Teladoc, comes in sixth place with 172 million.
The increase in investments in this sector increased in their jobs. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States, the healthcare industry will be more that will grow to 2022 The increase is estimated at 28.1% in job vacancies in this sector.
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