Is There A Future For Drones In Healthcare?
The threat COVID has posed ever since it first appeared influenced how healthcare operates on many levels. It triggered a rapid expansion in health technology – some obvious, like the rise of telemedicine or at-home lab tests, others filled a much-needed immediate void. The demand for safe solutions inclined the development of robotic support in hospitals – and drones.
I must admit, I expected the rise of drone-based solutions years ago (and I wasn’t alone with my expectations). By now, we are just at the very beginning of using drones in healthcare. And still, even now, when COVID-19 clearly showed the necessity ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 3, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones drones telehealth medical drones mon Source Type: blogs
The Future of COVID-19 Therapies and Vaccines
Against all odds and breaking development records, we now have several approved COVID-19 vaccines rolling out worldwide. No need for DIY vaccines; these research-backed shots have repeatedly been shown to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections and its spread. In May, following new evidence of efficacy in children, the FDA further approved administering the Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to children aged between 12 and 15 years. Before, only those aged 16 and up could get the vaccine but vaccinating more children will be key to achieving herd immunity and ending the pandemic.
With such a promising outlook of available vaccine...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 1, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research therapy Fauci cdc vaccine pfizer Moderna SARS SARS-CoV-2 trials Duke Human Vaccine Institute Altimmune Nigel McMillan Source Type: blogs
The Medical Futurist Big Survey (Also, Win A Book Signed By Dr Mesk ó)
Ever since I’ve started The Medical Futurist website, my interest was how the site (and later on the growing number of channels, from Youtube and Facebook to Patreon and Instagram) can address the most pressing issues in digital health and how I can support the advancement of digital transformation. Today, with a pandemic nearly behind us, we need this focus more than ever.
After all, science is the solid ground beneath our feet.
Over the past 10 years, our readership has been growing steadily, and by now, the TMF universe has nearly a million followers – I am humbled and grateful for you and my team to make ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 31, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: TMF survey questionnaire Berci Bertalan Meskó Source Type: blogs
The Best Technologies Against Food Allergies
Food has a significant role in our lives, yet, we practically have no idea what we eat. With the advent of industrial farming and the food processing industry, consumer control over food has been lost – and we lost track of substances. Food labels are far from providing enough information about what is actually in the package. Although labelling of allergens is mandatory in most countries, factual data is often hidden behind mysterious E-s and numbers. Various tech devices promise a solution.
And a solution is indeed needed. About 7.5% of the global population is allergic to certain foods. Over 200,000 people require ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research Future of Food Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics digital technology food allergy Nima food sensor digital health techno Source Type: blogs
This Is How A.I. Will Transform Medicine: The Same Way It Has Transformed Chess
By now, I’ve spent over one thousand hours playing chess at a professional level. Not to become the next world champion, but to better understand the language of A.I. or the language of anticipation.
While on this journey, I also looked into the history of the board game and became convinced that it serves as the perfect metaphor for what is coming to healthcare. With their similar backgrounds and the integration of A.I. in the fields, their transformation will also bear similarities.
And by looking into the transformation that A.I. brought about to chess, we can derive insights into how this upcoming change ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education A.I. chess Kempelen Farkas The Turk Wolfgang von Kempelen Garry Kasparov Monroe Newborn Source Type: blogs
The Technological Future Of Surgery
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” This quote by Arthur C. Clarke pretty much sums up the future of surgery. It offers fantastic cooperation between humans and technology, which could elevate the level of precision and efficiency of surgeries so high we have never seen before. A.I., surgical robots, 3D printing and new imaging methods are already used on a wide scale of procedures. But there’s much more to the future of surgery than that.
Today only 3% of surgical procedures are performed by robots, although 15% of all operations used robotic support or assistance in the ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Medical Education Robotics Virtual Reality 3d printing AI diagnostics Surgery technology gc4 surgical robot Source Type: blogs
What We Learnt After Looking Back At The Digital Health Tech We Reviewed
Throughout the years, we’ve reviewed several exciting digital health devices at The Medical Futurist. Some like Nima’s handheld food sensors sound as if they have come straight out of a Star Trek episode; and others like the CliniCloud ingeniously address real physician needs.
However, while many of the devices impressed us during our tests and indicated a promising solution for patients and doctors to adopt going forward, not all of them fared so well in subsequent years. For this reason, we decided to look back at those exciting digital health devices that we tested in the past but didn’t deliver on the promise ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones fda pebble GymWatch health technology fitness trackers Nima food sensor CliniCloud Andrew Lin Lumo text Source Type: blogs
Can Music Technologies Help The Mental Health Pandemic?
We tend to think that we know how our brain works. We believe that art and creativity (thus, music, too) belong to the right hemisphere of it and math, logic, linear thinking and facts to the left. Interestingly, as Daniel J. Levitin explains in his book, “This Is Your Brain on Music”, music is processed throughout the brain. Maybe that is why music has been elemental throughout human history: it can connect people with each other.
So when the first lockdown began worldwide, we all started to look for things to do at home, to eliminate the feeling of disconnectedness. One choice, watching movies, was obvious ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 13, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine music mental health mental wellbeing music therapy covid19 lockdown quarantine Daniel J. Levitin Kiminobu Sugaya Ayako Yonetani Dr Janos Kollar Will Henshall Focus@W Source Type: blogs
7 Futuristic Professions In Healthcare You Can Still Prepare For
If you’re among the thousands of medical students worldwide or are about to pursue a degree in healthcare, it might have dawned on you that the field wouldn’t look the same by the time you get into clinical practice. With drones delivering medical supplies; an ever-increasing wealth of data from personal health sensors; and patients turning to telemedicine, the medical workplace will decidedly look different by then.
But you also regularly hear news like how algorithms are able to beat radiologists to the punch when identifying cancerous lesions in medical images. These can fuel fear that such advanced tec...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Education Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Science Fiction Security & Privacy T Source Type: blogs
Your New Life In 2021 (Mid-Post COVID)
At the beginning of the pandemic, we wrote a lot about how the pandemic should and could be handled. In addition to providing real-world advice on what technology can do to support us (like Digital Health Apps To Use During Quarantine or The State of A.I. in the Fight Against COVID-19), we often provided forecasts (When And How Will COVID End?) and predictions about the management and the potential outcome of the epidemic (Will There Be A Second Wave). We even created an entire handbook to give away for free!
After drawing attention to the privacy and data protection issues raised by the pandemic (we issued a guide for ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast 3D Printing science telemedicine vaccination contact tracing cdc pfizer mask mRNA J&J herd immunity Uğur Şahin Karl Schroeder Source Type: blogs
Digital Health Technologies That Are Too Futuristic To Be In Practice Now (If Ever)
An oncologist administering nanorobots that swim through a patient’s bloodstream to deliver drugs in a highly targeted way. A person on a specific diet scanning their meal with a single device to reveal all of its major nutritional elements. A clinic’s transplant department 3D-printing whole organs. These are scenarios that sound like snippets extracted from a science-fiction novel. But these are digital health technologies that we will have to get used to in the future.
Nanorobots, food scanners, and bioprinting are all existing digital health technologies that we’ve reported on The Medical Futurist. However, t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Food Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Nanotechnology Robotics Science Fiction 3d printing bioprinting blood test device fda theranos Nima nanorobot Ni Source Type: blogs
The Top 20 Digital Health Trends For The Near Future: A New E-Book
It almost became a tradition at The Medical Futurist to publish at the beginning of every year an e-book about digital health trends that are worth keeping an eye on for that particular year. These e-books would contain a list of forecasts and the respective developments that led us to formulating that trend. While not all forecasts came to fruition (Google did not launch a new line of fitness trackers), others were more accurate (developments towards at-home lab tests did pick up steam). The aim of every trend was nevertheless to help readers get a bigger picture regarding the direction that the field was heading towards ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 29, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemed Source Type: blogs
What Would We Do In Healthcare With A Lot Of Money?
Suppose we have an infinite amount of money at our disposal to help create a democratic, rationalised and optimised healthcare system in the country. What would you choose to improve first? Which are the most important steps towards people’s long-term well-being, and what are the cornerstones of development?
With governments struggling with handling the burdens COVID-19 had placed onto the healthcare systems, money flows down the drain countlessly. In the UK, the NHS has spent £10.8m to date on its contact tracing app – and yet, according to a report, the NHSX couldn’t say if the app will be able to successfully ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Security & P Source Type: blogs
5 Insights About The Future Of Health Insurance In The Digital Health Age
The global health insurance market has been experiencing a declining growth rate in recent years; from 9% in 2014-2015 to 6-7% in subsequent years. The 2019 Forbes report that pointed this out also attributes this decline partly to the low adoption of digital solutions in this sector. But those very same solutions can transform the market.
Already with futuristic technologies like clinical grade personal health sensors, at-home genome sequencing kits and artificial intelligence, healthcare is receiving a much-needed overhaul that democratises access to quality care. The health insurance industry could also ride on those sa...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 22, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Insurance Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Telemedicine & Smartphones amazon bioprinting data patient gc4 Fitbit genome seque Source Type: blogs
What Would The Ideal Hospital Look Like?
If your imagination could run wild, how would you envision the future of hospitals? Hi-tech big machines, physicians analysing data obtained from patients’ devices, LED screens greeting visitors by their names using facial recognition, virtual patient visits, and robots leading operations… Well, experts have pretty much the same idea. Recently we wrote a lot about the future of hospitals. We emphasised the importance of good design both inside and outside the point of care. We imagined that these institutions will become “health centres for patients for preventing diseases, for acute care patients and for patient...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 20, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Forecast Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Personalized Medicine Po Source Type: blogs
