Health care in the future

• face to face appointments with your local doctor will convert into webcam appointments via services like Skype
• pharmacies will deliver medicine with solar powered drones
• "In England for example, long-term care needs for illnesses like cancer, diabetes and dementia make up 70 per cent of health and social spending" -The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind- As soon, as there are ways to reduce these costs, there will be a downward shifting cost curve in the health sector. Nurses might be replaced by robots, which could also cut costs.
• there'll be a dramatic reduce in prescription errors committed by pharmacists because of robots, who'll take the job of the pharmacists - Steiner, Automate This, 155 -
• Apps and technology will become more important for doctors and for patients:  Doctors will be able to save time, because the access to data is a lot easier with electronic systems than with long reference books. Patients can look up their symptoms online and find out, whether they need to see a doctor or not