Health care technology -- not the savior everyone perceives it to be!

In the New York Times Health Blog Well, Tara Parker writes about the need for both patients and physicians to move away from the framework that the most expensive and latest treatments are "best." She notes that technology has played a "surprisingly" small role in improving health outcomes - only 1 in 160,000 Americans have had their lives extended or saved because of recent improvements in health care technology. "The real gains in health, experts say, have come from lifestyle changes like smoking cessation and seat-belt use or from public health improvements like vaccination, a cleaner water supply and increasing access to primary care." Hopefully this is one more step towards getting the word out!
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