Everything You Need To Know About The Future Of Medicine
The Medical Futurist and his institute publish quite a number of books and e-books every year to keep everyone updated on the future. We have […]
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD
15 February 2022
The Medical Futurist and his institute publish quite a number of books and e-books every year to keep everyone updated on the future. We have now chosen the most popular 12 of our books and e-books, and compiled a list of recommendations if you just happen to look for a good read (or two).
1. A Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare – 2021 Edition
Format: E-book
In the past couple of years, artificial intelligence has moved from being a futuristic promise into a reference point for innovation. The technology also started to transform healthcare with great vigor. It’s high time to talk about what artificial intelligence brings to medicine.
Read The Medical Futurist’s guide to understand what you can anticipate from A.I. in healthcare and how to control this technology.
- Understand: Get a clear overview of the key concepts.
- Anticipate: Learn how to identify the opportunities and potential use cases of A.I. in healthcare and medicine.
- Control: Recognize and act upon the risks and implications of artificial intelligence.
A Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Can we stay human in the age of A.I.? To go even further, can we grow in humanity, can we shape a more humane, more equitable and sustainable healthcare?
Our e-book aims to prepare healthcare and medical professionals for the era of human-machine collaboration. Read The Medical Futurist’s guide to understanding, anticipating and controlling artificial intelligence.
2. The Guide to the Future of Medicine: Technology AND The Human Touch
Format: Kindle and Paperback
A few short years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that exoskeletons could enable paralysed people to walk again; that billions of people would rely on social media for information; and that the supercomputer Watson would be a key player in medical decision-making. Perhaps more than in any other field, technology has transformed medicine and healthcare in ways that a mere decade ago would have sounded like pure science fiction.
From his unique vantage as a trained physician, researcher, and medical futurist, Dr. Bertalan Mesko examines these developments and the many more down the pipeline. His aim is to assess how the hand of technology can continue to provide the dose of humanity that is crucial to effective healthcare. The Guide to the Future of Medicine: Technology and the Human Touch is his incisive, illuminating round-up of the technologies and trends that will shape the future of medicine.
3. My Health: Upgraded – Revolutionary Technologies To Bring A Healthier Future
Format: Kindle and Paperback
Information in our DNA can predict our future health. Biotechnology advances enable medical scientists to produce cells that fight tumours. Wearable devices measure our vital signs while at home. This book offers us a fresh look at how innovative technologies enable us to change health care for the long term. What is the present reality of surgical robots? Want to know whether nanorobots will ever swim in our bloodstream or whether actual, functioning organs can be made with 3-D printers?
To keep readers grounded in the here and now, Dr. Mesko discusses how he uses technology to monitor and improve his own health. From charting his sleeping patterns to using exercise motivation apps, he gives us detailed examples of how we can use technology to live a healthy and proactive life.
If you want an exciting and practical demonstration of where health care and medicine are heading, then My Health: Upgraded is for you.
4. The Future Of Pharma
Format: E-book
We designed this e-book to serve as a collection of relevant examples, best practices and exciting ideas that can help any pharmaceutical company prepare for change. Many pharma companies have been trying to hop on the “digital train”. This e-book was meant to prove that instead of a train of innovation, stakeholders should think in terms of spaceships and while there is still time to embrace digital health and patient empowerment, those that do it faster will get exponentially ahead of their competitors.
How Technologies are Shaping the Future of Pharma
We designed this e-book to serve as a collection of relevant examples, best practices and exciting ideas that can help any pharmaceutical company prepare for change. Many pharma companies have been trying to hop on the “digital train”. This e-book was meant to prove that instead of a train of innovation, stakeholders should think in terms of spaceships and while there is still time to embrace digital health and patient empowerment, those that do it faster will get exponentially ahead of their competitors.
5. The Hype Cycle Of The Top 50 Emerging Digital Health Trends – 2021 Edition
Format: E-book
Digital technologies have completely transformed our lives in the last couple of years and started to entirely reshape the landscape of healthcare. Yet, this is only the beginning. Huge waves of changes are on their way. The future of healthcare is shaping up in front of our eyes with advances in digital healthcare technologies.
In this latest research, we are sharing the Hype Cycle Of The Top 50 Emerging Digital Health Trends, from quantum computing to vocal biomarkers, from robots in hospitals to 3D printed drugs, these are the 50 trends you should know more about.
6. Practical Guide About Digital Health For Medical Professionals – 2021 Edition
Format: E-book
Available for free download!
Today, when people Google their symptoms and use digital health technologies even before going to the doctor, it is more important than ever to be updated on the digital developments in healthcare and navigate through questions of digital health-related issues. That is why we created this short guide for medical professionals. It helps for ways of listening and answering patients’ questions related to digital health issues and offers a framework on how to respond to the latest challenges in patient-doctor communication in the 21st century.
7. Tech Giants In Healthcare
Format: E-book
Big tech companies like Amazon, Google/Alphabet, Apple, IBM and Microsoft are taking their move into healthcare and medicine seriously. They are developing new, health-related features on their platforms. They are also teaming up with research institutions and developers to create new tools for patients, doctors and other stakeholders in medicine – and they are heavily investing in partnerships with start-ups or launching new ventures. This guide details how and why the move of the big tech companies happens to healthcare.
Tech Giants in Healthcare – Updated Edition
This comprehensive guide, Tech Giants in Healthcare, clarifies how and why big tech companies step into healthcare, and breaks it down from one market player to the other in what direction they are going, what tools they are using and what horizons they have in front of them.
8. Invest in Digital Health
Format: E-book
The pandemic has just made the importance of digital health innovation more prominent. Good digital health investments these days cannot only provide a more optimistic vision for healthcare but can shape how we deal with COVID-19 too. Artificial intelligence and digital health are booming. In this book, we explain why now it’s a good time to invest in digital health and give recommendations on where to invest by looking at the top 24 technological trends we find the most promising.
9. Top 20 Digital Health Trends For The Near Future – 2021 Edition
Format: E-book
Digital technology could help transform unsustainable healthcare systems, provide cheaper, faster, and more effective solutions for diseases – and could lead to healthier individuals living in healthier communities.
In this book, we analyse the top 20 trends shaping the future of healthcare, and what they all look like in practice. Each section contains an aspect that we wanted to highlight about that technology or trend based on our analyses after studying the field for years. We also walk you through that area with relevant descriptions and examples that we find interesting. Additionally, we include further reading suggestions at the end of every section, which you can turn to so as to dive deeper into the subject.
10. The 40 Most Exciting Questions About The Future of Healthcare
Format: E-book
- Will technology make managing diabetes easier?
- How can we use wearables today to exercise more, sleep better and decrease anxiety?
- Can 3D printed organs ever make donor waiting lists redundant?
- Should doctors be replaced by artificial intelligence and surgical robots?
These are only four examples of the 40 exciting questions The Medical Futurist answers in this book about the present and future of health technology. The questions he sought to answer are among the most exciting from over 500 talks given at patient forums, pharmaceutical boards and healthcare conferences.
The 40 Most Exciting Questions About The Future of Healthcare
Dr. Bertalan Mesko, PhD answers the 40 most exciting questions about the present and future of health technology. Just a few examples to thrill you: Will technology make managing diabetes easier? How can we use wearables today to exercise more, sleep better and decrease anxiety? Can 3D printed organs ever make donor waiting lists redundant? Should doctors be replaced by artificial intelligence and surgical robots?
11. The Technological Future of Medical Specialties – 2021 Edition
Format: E-book
Every medical specialty will transform differently due to the technological revolution. In certain fields, such as nursing, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, innovation will have much less impact than on dentistry, cardiology or pathology. In this e-book we specify in detail how the appearance of artificial intelligence, sensors, wearables, VR/AR or robots affect each medical specialty in order to be able to discern what skills physicians will need in the future.
We aim to show how physicians of the various professions can successfully prepare for the sweeping changes coming with the waves of technology. We want to go against the fears that artificial intelligence, robots or any other innovative solutions will take over doctors’ jobs. While digital technologies certainly have the capacity to take over administrative tasks, organizational processes or even simpler diagnostic steps, the expertise of medical professionals is irreplaceable.
12. Privacy In The Digital Health Era
Format: E-book
Along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along like remote care, A.I. tools or 3D printing, there is the pressing issue of privacy. How secure is secure data? Is my health data on my smartphone/fitness device safe? Can Google, Amazon, or Facebook buy my health records from my hospital? Can I have an influence on who in the hospital can see and read my records? Today, everyone needs to understand that there is no digital health without sacrificing a part of our privacy. The advanced technologies fueling the transformation cannot improve without our data; and without it, they can’t be implemented as part of regular medical care. And COVID-19 has only made things worse.
In the age of digital health, it’s not a question of whether we should do this or not but how we can do it in a way that protects what is valuable and vulnerable. We describe the three cornerstones of privacy of every privacy discussion going forward: the traditional, the new and the future spheres that deal with your health data, and put forward recommendations on how you can start protecting yourself.
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