Posted on 1/14/2016
Developers of medical technology should study how GPS continues to disrupt how people navigate from point A to point B, said Alan Greene, MD, chief medical officer of Scanadu (Moffett Field, CA) at BIOMEDevice San Jose.
Google Maps is already in its ninth iteration, giving users turn-by-turn navigation instructions with a bevy of contextualized information. For instance, it can show live traffic information, calculate how much an Uber ride will cost, or inform users of transit schedule changes.
Meanwhile, much of medical practice is stuck at the MapQuest stage, Greene said, where pat...