Security & Privacy

There is no digital health without sacrificing some of our privacy. The key is to know how you can control this process and protect what’s valuable.

Microsoft in healthcare: the company’s multi-billion dollar bet on artificial intelligence-based solutions in medicine starts paying off.

AI for medical use, cloud services for healthcare practices, apps for research – Google is everywhere in the digital health field. But the competition is fierce, and the race is still wide open.

While we were battling the COVID-19 virus in 2020, other infections were also happening, albeit in other, digital systems. We are, of course, talking about […]

Supporting digital health technologies that facilitate the doctor-patient relationship.

There are many threats if we let medical innovation run wild. We collected 10 hazards that technology brings about in the digital health age.

Facial recognition technology is upon us; phones and computers can now be unlocked with your specific facial structure using this gimmick, but it can also scarily be used to identify you from security cameras which are increasingly becoming omnipresent.

Chances are your health data was already stolen or will be at some point. This is how it happens.

How will the billions and billions of dollars these companies spend on establishing positions in medicine transform the ways healthcare happens?

Every now and then we see something that freaks out even the seasoned team of The Medical Futurist. From robot nannies taking care of human babies grown in artificial wombs to waking up with an electric shock.

A lot of evidence-based studies have been proving the use of VR for medical purposes. But can the same happen with the metaverse too?

When it comes to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), or the emerging form of digital certificate that certifies an asset as being one-of-a-kind, the world seems to […]

From the approval of a new prescription VR treatment to renewed privacy concerns, 2021 has been full of digital health developments. Indeed, some news might […]

Data is the foundation of artificial intelligence. As the importance of A.I. grows in modern medicine, there’s a huge need for data (as well as […]

As a researcher, I have always lived for the moments when I had to see a whole process and analyse the small details at once. […]

A few weeks ago, we kickstarted a new series of articles contemplating the moves of pharmaceutical heavyweights in the digital health arena. The first batch […]