The 5 Levels Of Automation In Medicine
“Good morning! How may I help you today?” asks the virtual assistant as you boot your telemedicine app. After experiencing a sore throat and runny nose for a few days, you’ve decided to seek medical attention. You share your symptoms with the assistant who subsequently suggests a cause after scanning its database. “There’s an 83% chance that you are experiencing allergic symptoms,” replies the chatbot. “I will send you your prescription shortly, but if you are not satisfied or still feel unwell, please request for a human physician.” Considering the likelihood of the diagnosis and the deductive prowess o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education ibm watson automation A.I. Andrew Ng A.I. assistant Journal Of Clinical Oncology Behold.ai Source Type: blogs

The Future Of Healthcare Design – Outside The Point Of Care
When talking about the future of healthcare, we also have to talk about the future designs of the institutions providing medical services. However, with digital health technologies that democratise access to care, the point of care will not be limited to healthcare institutions. It will rather be split into two; with hospitals becoming health centres for disease prevention, acute care and surgical needs, while monitoring patients’ vitals will be done closer to patients themselves. We explore these aspects of the future of hospital design in this two-part series. In the first article, we looked at design adjustments to...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast Lifestyle medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Portable Medical Diagnostics Robotics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones ecg Source Type: blogs

The Future Of Hospital Design – Inside The Point Of Care
Interminable waiting lines; long, boring corridors; piles of paperwork; these are processes and scenes we’re used to when turning to healthcare institutions. But they attest to the relics of a workflow from the 20th century; while 21st-century technology can radically improve the system from the inside out. Quite literally. Indeed, in designing the future of hospitals, much will be offloaded to the outside of these institutions by leveraging digital health technologies. Patients could monitor their vitals wherever they are thanks to wearables and share the data to their physicians remotely. But that does not make hosp...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy emergency hospital design robots technologies point-of-care alarm fatigue McKinsey hospitals Do Source Type: blogs

3D Bioprinting: Eradicating Transplantation Waiting Lists And Testing Drugs On Living Tissues
From time to time, news arises about 3D printed organs. On such occasions, people usually think that a machine can already create readily available, implantable human organs. However, the reality is far from this optimistic image.  Researchers worldwide are working on possible solutions: from a group that printed a miniature kidney, through technological solutions like BioAssemblyBot we wrote about earlier, to entirely new methods that can lead to patient-specific heart tissue printing. The list is long and set in a clinical setting. We checked out where the technology stands today and where it might lead us in healthcar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy bioprinting fda Innovation Personalized medicine rna science fiction Source Type: blogs

Alternate Realities Help Medical Education And Training During COVID-19
With the need to limit physical contact amidst the pandemic, the whole world turned to virtual solutions to reprise their daily activities. Zoom and Slack became the new workplace; and even medical consultations were increasingly conducted online. However, by turning indoors, aspiring healthcare professionals were negatively impacted since hands-on practices and training were limited, if not impossible. In Scotland, dental students had to repeat a whole year due to insufficient clinical exposure. In particular, they could not practise aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) enough. The latter were limited due to their pote...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Biotechnology E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Medical Education Virtual Reality Surgery VitraMed DentSim Simulator orthopedics stud Source Type: blogs

A.I. In Healthcare, 2021: 8 Exciting Insights From The E-Book
Far from being the futuristic promise it once was, artificial intelligence (A.I.) is an unavoidable eventuality in virtually all sectors. Heeding to its potential, governments around the world are collaborating and taking steps to ensure the responsible development and use of A.I. One such recent example is the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) jointly created by 14 governments and the European Union in 2020. Healthcare will also need to brace itself for this disruptive force. Already, the number of life science studies published around A.I. rose from 1,600 in 2010 to 7,300 in 2020. The technology is ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Security & Privacy algorithm database fda MRI physician Source Type: blogs

A.I. In Healthcare: 8 Exciting Insights From A New E-Book
Far from being the futuristic promise it once was, artificial intelligence (A.I.) is an unavoidable eventuality in virtually all sectors. Heeding to its potential, governments around the world are collaborating and taking steps to ensure the responsible development and use of A.I. One such recent example is the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) jointly created by 14 governments and the European Union in 2020. Healthcare will also need to brace itself for this disruptive force. Already, the number of life science studies published around A.I. rose from 1,600 in 2010 to 7,300 in 2020. The technology is ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Security & Privacy algorithm database fda MRI physician Source Type: blogs

5 Reasons Why Artificial Intelligence Won ’t Replace Physicians
Artificial intelligence-based solutions are changing healthcare for the better. We saw it coming over the past years, and as COVID-19 has put an extra accent on the use of such tools, that initial wave grew into a tsunami. But would this mean that medical professionals are not needed anymore? Of course not. Here are five fundamental reasons why A.I. won’t replace doctors – and it never will. The medical community should not fall for the fear-mongering around A.I. Despite the wide-scale automatisation and digitalisation, humans will always be needed for specific tasks and, according to a new study, the use of robo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education AI algorithm brain diagnosis doctor physician Radiology technology tel Source Type: blogs

This Is How We Can End COVID In 6 Steps
There is frankly one question today on everybody’s mind: when will all this end? And although deep inside we all know this won’t really be over till it’s… over, we strive for a definite answer. Say, in June. The sad news is, the pandemic will be with us until we finally take individual responsibility. Instead of trying to avoid the jab, we should get ourselves vaccinated as soon as possible. Why? I’ll tell you in six simple, self-explanatory logical steps. 1. COVID-19 will end when the coronavirus becomes endemic A virus becomes endemic when it has a constant presence within a population in a certain ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare ethical vaccination coronavirus lockdown vaccine flu hospitals Italy Spanish flu Source Type: blogs

This Is How We Can End COVID In 6 Logical Steps
There is frankly one question today on everybody’s mind: when will all this end? And although deep inside we all know this won’t really be over till it’s… over, we strive for a definite answer. Say, in June. The sad news is, the pandemic will be with us until we finally take individual responsibility. Instead of trying to avoid the jab, we should get ourselves vaccinated as soon as possible. Why? I’ll tell you in six simple, self-explanatory logical steps. 1. COVID-19 will end when the coronavirus becomes endemic A virus becomes endemic when it has a constant presence within a population in a certain ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 25, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare ethical vaccination coronavirus lockdown vaccine flu hospitals Italy Spanish flu Source Type: blogs

3 Reasons Why National Digital Health Transformations Fail
An armada of digital health technologies is set to bring healthcare to the 21st century. Artificial intelligence can make the alarm fatigue epidemic a thing of the past. Medical-grade, portable diagnostic devices make patients the point-of-care. With such potentials and more, it’s no wonder that some governments are developing national digital health strategies to transform their current systems. A survey from the American Hospital Association suggests that around 85% of hospital executives already factor digital innovation as part of their long-term strategy. Bringing about such a change requires heavy investments. T...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy technology portable diagnostics cybersecur Source Type: blogs

Generation Q(uarantine): Children Of The Pandemic
COVID-19 has put a spotlight on existing problems that some call the biggest pandemic issue we face today: mental health. “Good mental health is absolutely fundamental to overall health and well-being,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO. And children are particularly affected.  A worldwide scale of anxiety, loneliness and fear that had been there before added up, and investigation found rise in school safeguarding reports, eating disorders and sleeping pill prescriptions. Parents struggle to get help, and, as a social worker in the UK put it “everybody feels anxious at the moment. Yo...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Digital Health Research E-Patients Healthcare Policy Medical Education depression Hospital digital technology children mental health anxiety WHO lockdown child rights Human Rights Watch UNICEF quarantine Generati Source Type: blogs

The Technological Future Of Sexuality And Sexual Health
Long-distance hugs; virtual reality porn stars; technosexuals living with automated dolls; you might have caught such news snippets online, but you’ll have to get used to these with the technological transformation of sex. Indeed, if technology permeates the entire terrain of human relations, why should sex and sexuality be an exception?  Sextech is already a $30 billion-strong industry, but analyses expect it to grow further to $52.7 billion by 2026. Such devices even made their way into the popular Consumer Electronic Show in 2020 and 2021 showing that tech and sex are increasingly getting intermingled. But far fr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Augmented Reality Bioethics Cyborgization Robotics Virtual Reality ces future science fiction technology sensors sex sexuality porn transhumanism sextech hugshirt kissenger Gatebox Alexa loneliness epidemic Source Type: blogs

5 Ways Digital Health Can Help Athletes Break Records
By winning his 7th Super Bowl on February 7th, 2021, Tom Brady made it to the American football history pantheon for winning the most rings, and also for making the most Super Bowl appearances (10). But at 43, he also broke the record for being the oldest quarterback to lead his team to win a Super Bowl. Skipping fruits and infrared rays-emitting pyjamas aside, Brady must be doing something right to maintain such longevity to his athletic, record-breaking performance. Brady has credited this to the “TB12 Method”, a strict health and wellness regimen he co-created with his longtime trainer Alex Guerrero. His diet inv...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Personalized Medicine DNA football sleep smartwatch nutrigenomics sleep as android Fi Source Type: blogs