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What improvements in medical technology could PMI providers expect to use in order to control costs in the near future? Doctor Peter Mills investigates

Apparently we now carry around more processing power in our pockets than was available on the Apollo spacecraft mission to the moon. Whether this is true or not, it certainly is amazing to ponder just how technological innovations over the last couple of decades have become integral to our every day lives. This having been said, with the exception of medical diagnostics and treatment, healthcare professionals have generally been rather slow at adopting technology as a way of improving service delivery and clinical outcomes – medical colleagues were still not using email as recently as th...

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