Failure to take medication is one of the biggest problems facing the healthcare industry. More than 30% of patients prescribed blood pressure treatments are non-compliant, according to Forbes. It could take months for doctors to identify such issues. Until now.
 

 
Increasingly, hospitals are viewing emergency rooms as a dependable way to generate new business. It wasn’t always this way. With high running costs and significant numbers of uninsured patients, trauma centers and ERs used to be considered excellent ways of hemorrhaging cash. They were a necessary inconvenience of running a hospital, the cost offset by the reward of, you know, saving lives.
 

The primary concerns of the healthcare industry – budgets, wait times, patient security – are being addressed in dramatic fashion by a slew of technological innovations.