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Dr.Vin Gupta, Amazon's chief medical officer, recently gave the keynote speech at Sanford Health's annual meeting in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and he had some interesting things to say about the state of health care in the US.
Among them: "There has been a baseline chronic epidemic of chronic disease undergirding all of American society," he tells the Sanford Health podcast.
"The biggest opportunity is people often don't know they have illness when it first sets in."
So how do we empower patients with better diagnostics? "If you can compare better diagnostics that if you can let somebody know that there's a problem early on in their illness, whether it's a chronic disease like hypertension, better diagnostics for cancer," he says.
"People don't get, utilize the diagnostics that they have available to them right now, but better diagnostics coupled with these at-home health care services, hopefully will allow us to really intervene earlier when somebody has disease, to keep them out of the hospital, to keep them out of the four walls of an inpatient facility like exist at Sanford, to keep them out of the four walls of an outpatient environment."
The third opportunity he sees is "generative AI," which he says will "help augment the
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